Mental illness turns people inwards. That’s what I reckon. It keeps us forever trapped by the pain of our own minds[...]
every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter.
You only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expect it to be.
We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.
Gray fall light came through the nine square glass panes. On days like this, the strips of white wood that separated the glass seemed brighter to the eye than did the window light.
Of course the fall semester didn’t start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I’d be alive when it rolled around.
Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.
And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.
They want dancing girls! They want thrills! They want elephants! They want people falling off roofs! They want dreams! The world is full of little people with big dreams!
They're fanatics. It's like expecting humanity from a falling rock. It's not going to have a fit of compassion and not crack your skull open.
Dry snow coming down in the hills. Magpies hair-triggered and thuggish in worn trees. A wall has started to fall in you, it will take years to land.
You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.
A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!
When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.
To fall in love and to commit yourself to love means you should make your loved one the one thing you cherish the most.
Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.
A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window.
Had I crossed the pass Supported by a stick, I would have spared myself The fall from the horse.
Look for Joy: that's God's echo, and his footprint. Happiness . . . happiness and wittiness and cleverness do not count for much when the darkness falls. Joy is tougher.
My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.
My daddy said that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, the feeling just never goes away.
