These were such friendly people, they didn’t notice how crabby we were, and before you knew it everyone was as happy as they were.
And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible.
There are many, many different worlds to live in. And sometimes there is no connection from one to another.
What was costly was not the shot but coming back without good pictures to choose from. The light was perfect, orange gray, casting long shadows. The city seemed to reveal more the darker it got.
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.