What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you’re so wrecked it’s hard to believe you ever were a child?
When you come to the end, that’s where God begins.
He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.
At that moment i felt lonelier than i’d ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.
Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.
Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. When you are measuring life, you are not living it.
There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.
Didn’t people call New Year’s the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.
She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.
But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.
What in life can love not penetrate?
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.
But man invents nothing God did not create first.
A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.
We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.
He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.
Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.
There is a reason God limits man’s days.