It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.
It was an impressive display of good food abused in the name of fashionable cooking.
There can be much more to a decision than you can know at this stage of your life.
Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. This is wisdom. Does it hurt? Does wisdom hurt? Does peace hurt? Does acceptance hurt?
Once a man has been broken by pain, he remains forever a victim. He cannot ever forget that place he has visited, the moment when he decided that he would surrender everything rather than endure more pain.
Time doesn’t stop for her just because you’re gone.
For I had already dreamed your face and I knew I must find you, even though everyone had assured me that you did not and could not exist.
Some memories are best left undisturbed. Sometimes, if you forget something, it’s because it’s better forgotten.
He came one late, wet spring, and brought the wide world back to my doorstep.
Stop defining yourself by what you can’t do. Why don’t you consider what you didn’t lose?
There is, in all honesty, no way to kill someone mercifully. There are those who count it no crime to drown an imperfect newborn in warm water, as if the infant will not struggle desperately to draw air into its lungs. Did it not try to breathe, it would not drown. But they do not hear the screams nor feel the darkening of the mind that the child endures, so they have been merciful. To themselves. This is true of most “mercy killings.
Happy comes and goes, Tats. Loving someone isn’t that crazy infatuation that you feel at first. That passes. Well, not passes, but it calms down, and then sometimes, when you least expect it, you get a glimpse of the person and it all comes back again, in a big rush.
And like a child, I’d be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.
Coming up. A large tawny cat announced this to me at the same moment that he effortlessly elevated onto my lap. I stared at him in surprise.
I could do as my father did: that is, lift my eyes and meet her gaze and let nothing of what I was thinking show in my face.
She closed her mouth. The abruptness of the kiss and Tats’s assumption that something had just changed between them took her breath away. She should have pushed him away.
The whole of everything I want in this world is right here, under my hand.
He’d known of love and accepted that it existed for him. But never before had he actually felt love as a physical sensation that emanated from another creature and warmed and comforted him. It was incredible.
Her ambitions have always exceeded her abilities.” He paused, and looked directly at Regal. “In royalty, that is a most lamentable failing.
It is hard for loneliness to gaze on happiness.