You can’t know everything. Sometimes you have to trust. Sometimes you have to just feel.
Love’s not some amorphous concept created for books and poetry and not attainable. It’s real and vital, and it’s necessary. Damn it.
You can never read too many books, any kind.
The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man.
Where there is a great deal of light, the shadows are deeper.
Romance made every woman beautiful, and every man a prince. A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.
Love faded, or flipped over into loathing. Or settled somewhere in between into a kind of grinding detachment. It could snap like a dry twig, with one careless step.
I thought it was over, all I could think was I never told you I love you. What an idiot.
Don’t let the fear and suspicion of the brutal and ignorant make you doubt yourself.
I get pretty opinionated about books.
Wait. Wait. Mackensie? The redhead you had a crush on in high school?” Defeated, Carter rubbed the spot between his eyebrows again. “I should never have told you about that. This is why I rarely drink.” “But, Cart, this is like kismet.” Excitement rushed through the words. “It’s like return of the nerd. It’s the big chance to follow up on a lost opportunity.” “It’s coffee,” Carter muttered.
Taking love is easy – giving it is a bit harder, for some people anyway.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Love doesn’t turn on and off like a light switch.
Destiny has more than one road.
It isn’t easy looking in the mirror and accepting that you were missing some element, some thing that kept a person you wanted from loving you.
Being a good writer meant he could make a living and do as he chose. Being a great one would bring responsibilities and expectations he had no desire to face.
Because if you had confidence enough to try something, you had to have courage enough to fail.
He preferred the term “study” to “office,” as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, you could, well, study, or nap or read, or stare into space thinking long thoughts. You could certainly work, but it wasn’t a requirement.
A lot of people don’t have fond memories of high school. It’s often a war of politics and personalities, set off by the cannon fire of hormones.