A Book Keeper! Gods of the word, they are. Finest of the brave. You know, it's them that keep books, (he says) that know things in the end.
I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that
I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....
They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...
I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.
A strong and brave heart isn’t enough. A true heart, no matter how much the truth hurts, is the strongest of all.
She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.
I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better.
Home isn't just a house or a city or a place; home is what happens when you're brave enough to love people.
Men brave and generous live the best lives, seldom will they sorrow; then there are fools, afraid of everything, who grumble instead of giving.
The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.
I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.
God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.
I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.
We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.
