After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.
I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
So,” I said at last, staring at my hands. “How’s, uh, your car?” “I left it out on the street. Figured it’ll be fine there while I’m gone.
No pastor, no spiritual leader, is ever able to take his people any further than he himself has gone with God.
It had been too much for Edith to take and she had gone to her room so that her nieces wouldn't see her cry anymore.
I reached for her through the darkness, but she was gone. Like dominoes folding over, the rest of the mirrors collapsed down on top of me. The impact caused the world around me to vanish.
Webster said, ''Time them skeeters get done with that old man, his French blood will be all gone and he will speak American as good as we do.
The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well.
She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.
I’d gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters and nightmares, because it was easier than going to the gym.
Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.
Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.
Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.
Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
It was spring, the part of spring where the bursting is done, the held-in pressures of desiccated sap-veins and gum-sealed buds are gone, and all the world’s in a rush to be beautiful.
If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
Gone. and it was completely. Everyone I'd every known, every place I'd ever been. My Mother. My father. Rebecca. Out of site. Out of mind.
Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.
I wondered if that was what I was doing myself – caring so much about something that was so long gone that I was only propping it up.
Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?
If I die tomorrow, I'll be alright because I believe that after we're gone, spirit carries on...
