Power should come from work, time, effort. Care,” he added. “As the most important things do.
I think you should do what makes you happy. And sometimes doing what makes you happy is harder and scarier than doing what’s safe.
Why did they make babies so damn small? And loud. Surely better arrangements could be made for the propagation of the human race.
You couldn’t erase the past, or kill it, or wish it out of existence. Nor could you will away the present or change what was coming. We were all trapped in that cycle of time, just circling around the core of yesterdays. Sometimes those yesterdays were strong enough, willful enough, to suck you back no matter how hard you struggled.
She started to sound like Charlie Brown’s mother to him. Just a nasal wah-wah-wah. He loved her, he really did, but he imagined Charlie Brown loved his mother, too. It didn’t make her any more comprehensible.
Only a fool asked for more sorrow. Only a romantic believed that bitterness could ever be sweet.
What I’m saying – I take a good snapshot. Slices of life, the kids and all, I mean. And it’s important to have the record, those memories. But what you do, it just grabs emotions right out.
Do you ever wonder at the arrogance of men who think they alone exist in the Universe?
But sometimes you know one thing and feel another.
I believe in payback. For the little things, for the big ones. For everything in between. Letting people screw you over is just lazy and uncreative.
It takes about ten seconds for a puppy to get bored. Bored puppies chew. Happy puppies chew. Sad puppies chew.
Love doesn’t require payment. Cam’s right about that. There are no checks and balances here.
Ends and beginnings – there are no such things. There are only middles. ROBERT FROST.
I know why you came. Because you couldn’t stay away. I understand that. Now you’re just going to have to accept what comes with it.
You’re going to find I’m not the kind who’ll always give you what you want. You can fight me, sometimes you might even win. But you won’t stop me.
A leader’s who everybody looks to for answers, even when there aren’t any. Who everyone blames when things go wrong. A leader’s the one who has to do the dirty work, even if it’s the damn dishes.
It’s ridiculous to say not to speak ill of the dead. We’re all going to be dead eventually. What would we talk about in the meantime?
Everything seemed paused for change, but was she? Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. And, she admitted, she prized routine, tradition, even repetition.
Heaven and Earth, Ripley, do more than hold us between them. They expect us to deserve it.
Lived their lives as they chose to live. That’s a real victory, don’t you think, living as you choose to live?