One could not live forever, though, upon memories and dreams. One could not forever ignore the fact that one was alone and that perhaps one would be alone for the rest of one’s life.
We often do not say what is in our hearts,” he said, “to those who are closest and most dear to us.
The comforting thing about difficult days, Chloe had learned from experience, was that the sun rose at the start of them and set at the end just as it did on any other day. And there was always the assurance of better days ahead.
It is a common failing of men. They see someone they consider beautiful and desirable and eligible, and they imagine that they love her. In fact, though, they love themselves reflected in her eyes.
One should love from a position of wholeness. One should have a firm and rich sense of self no matter what. For there is always pain – it cannot be avoided in this life, more’s the pity. But pain should not destroy the person who feels it.
Sometimes sexuality was more compelling when it was not overt.
I am your husband. When you feel lonely or afraid or unhappy, it is to me you must come. My arms are here for you, and my strength too for whatever it is worth. You will never be a burden to me.
There is a l-life lesson here for all of us, is there, M-Mrs. Keeping?” he asked her. “We should all and always look upward, and all our t-troubles will be at an end?” She smiled. “If only life were that simple.” “But for daffodils it is,” he said. “We are not daffodils.
Living is not merely a matter of staying alive, is it? It is what you do with your life and the fact of your survival that counts.
It is hard, is it not,” he said, “to have one’s life develop quite differently from what one expected and to feel not fully in command of it?
The wind was cold and cut into her even though it was at her back, but she loved the wild sound and the salt smell of it and the deepened sense of solitude it brought.
They were stranded on the opposite sides of death, at least for now, and that was all there was to it.
Do you believe that sometimes life points out a way for us to follow even if it does not force us into taking that particular path?
I will love you all my life and even beyond that,” he said. “You will always be my only love.
You are not by any manner of means the sort of woman I am in search of as a wife, and I am in a totally different universe from the husband you hope to find. But I feel a powerful urge to kiss you, for all that.
Your father is your f-father regardless, Agnes. Birth and b-breeding do not always depend upon small matters like who provided the seed.
Pain is not insignificant. Neither is bewilderment or fear. Or conditions like poverty or homelessness. But somewhere – somewhere – there is peace. It is not even far off. It is somewhere deep inside us, in fact, ever present, just waiting for us to look inward to find it.” She.
We would have met again some other time or in some other place,′ he said. ‘We would have been given other chances. Life recognizes the unpredictability of our movements in any given life. Somehow we would have met, Jane. We were determined that it would be so before we entered this life.
I like your voice. That sounds ridiculously lame, I know. But when you cannot see, Miss Fry, sound and the other senses become far more acute. Normally one likes the look of someone to whom one feels attracted. I like the sound of your voice.
Ladies did not allow fear to master them. Ladies did not abjure society merely because they were embarrassed and unhappy, merely because they felt unattractive and unwanted. Ladies did not give in to self-pity.