Because it was a selfish prayer, and selfish prayers don’t get answered.
You know how they say there’s only one thing in the universe that’s constant?′ Jonas started. ‘Change. Change is the only constant in the universe. And left alone, all things return to chaos.
Know how to live with the time that is given you.
In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.
Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.
He says, “But, hey, wouldn’t it be weird-if Bennu wakes up from the operation, and he’s all tall and stuff, and then he doesn’t recognize himself in the mirror?
Old elbows,” she told me. “A woman’s elbows always give her age away.
When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.
Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can’t be any other way.
Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do. And if you don’t – If you don’t, people make the assumption that you do not FEEL what they feel. And then they make the assumption – That you must not feel anything at all.
But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That’s it.
It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.
Courage is contagious: When one person of courage stands up, others are affected and stand up with him.
But just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it’s not there. And just because you don’t remember something doesn’t mean you don’t miss it. And just because you are used to something doesn’t mean it’s normal” -Ruby.
You can not know any better and still know you don’t like something” -Ruby.
It’s not about what makes you feel better or worse. If it’s the right thing to do and you know it, you should do it.
You could do anything, anything you want with your life.
Because in the end it was just about people: mothers, fathers, friends, foes, sisters, brothers, children born and not yet born, sons, and daughters; people from all over the United States and then all over the globe, whose lives would never be the same. Because the world changed that day, slowly and then all at once.
Anger sends out a strange energy, like a force field in a science fiction movie. It repels. It destroys.
When two people are destined in heaven to be together, they are complete, and the repairing of the world can begin.