If we don’t change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder.
When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
Happiness is what you choose to remember.
Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?
They’re fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?
We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.
I wondered about the explorers who’d sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.
My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.
What you didn’t tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
Just because you didn’t put a name to something did not mean it wasn’t there.
Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?
Polar north can’t get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.
I know what it’s like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it’s hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.
What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.
What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you’d never forget?
Infatuation’s just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that’s when they become real.
I don’t know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You’d be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.