For, if after fifty you don't live the aspirations of the young, go away. Who needs needs spectacled snails, salivating on the Soma of youth.
There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.
He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes.
You can't take away something she never fully had. She may have been promised to me, but my heart will never belong to her!
I wondered how he'd learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken.
What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.
Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.
Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.
My God is the one who exists apart from all of men’s agendas, the God who takes you away when there is no possible place you can go.
I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.
An ‘eye for an eye’ shall leave you all blind. It’s sometimes better to walk away and know you will still be able to see the beauty that tomorrow will bring.
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
The pains in my heart don't go away these days. The heartaches are chronic; they layer on top of each other from one day to the next, thickening like a callus.
You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.
I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities,and right away they loved them and decided to fight for them. That isn’t my story.
Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection!
After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.
I feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years.
I wanted to believe that Makandal flew away, but my wishes can’t fly freely so. They’re rooted to the ground like me, who eats salt.
I’m not the pervert you think I am. No, I’m an entirely different pervert. Keep cardboard tubes away from me. (I should be a politician.)
After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.
