I am you, Umasi, and I am weak." the shadow spun around and began walking away. "In the end, either you will conquer me…or I will conquer you.
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.
Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade away.
In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.
Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.
But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security.
The Bill of Rights wasn’t enacted to give us any rights. It was enacted so the Government could not take away from us any rights that we already had.
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.
Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When the ball of steel is rubbed away by the friction, eternity will not even have begun.
Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.
Problem is, the bathroom pass can't help you escape life. It's still there when you come out. Problems and crap don't go away hiding in the can.
This connection we have isn't going away, it's only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be.
I didn’t want to cry in front of you.” He wiped away the tears with the pad of his thumb. “I want you to cry in front of me.
Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I’m not a pirate, and she’s not my captured princess.
When she finally pulled away from him—much to Aley’s stuttering forward reluctance—he wanted only to echo Aley’s words: “Oh! Do it again.
Ethan was loyal and funny and protective. When we were little, he was the brother most likely to make me cry—and mostly likely to wipe away my tears.
It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
You must stay away from the one who brings nothing but heartache and death. Do you hear me? He brings nothing but death. Always has.
I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.
As we send our armsmen and sailors away to fight and die together; let there be peace between us. If there cannot be peace in the world, at least let it be welcome here.
