Understanding how or why is seldom as useful as understanding that things are.
Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself.
You’ll do well, if you don’t mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same.
Sometimes it is easier to pull a knife out of a man than to ask him to forget words you have uttered.
Love can exist without need.
When had it become so ingrained in her to apologize whenever she wanted something for herself?
I had no idea what to do with this unexpected life.
Better to regret unsaid words than repent of words I could never call back. Who.
I suddenly wished to go back, to have again each separate day to spend. Time. I was trapped in it, fenced into a tiny piece of now that was the only time I could influence. All the soons and tomorrows I might plan were ghost things that might be snatched from me at any moment. Intentions were nothing. Now was all I had.
Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.
But if she let go of her anger, all that would remain was grief and pain. Anger was easier. Anger could be focused outward. Grief corroded from within.
It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.
It made me wish there were a place as much me as that place is you. A place I would keep as secret.
He has other soldiers, more capable than I.” “Does that free you from your promise?” “You argue like a priest.
They spoke of a dream of a child who bore the heart of a wolf.
Pain and perfection. It was the only path to redemption he knew.
There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no Kings.
Only a crazy man could have made any sense of the events. I did not want to be crazy, and so I could not think seriously about these things or permit them to have meaning in my life.
I have never been wise.
What you’re looking for is the feeling that no matter what, being with that person is always going to be better than being without that person. Good times or bad. That having that person around makes whatever you’re going through better, or at least more tolerable.