That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.
Forgiveness is not about letting anybody 'off the hook.' Forgiveness actually has nothing to do with the person you are forgiving. It does, however, have everything to do with you.
If you want to live your best life and have more people on your side, being kind will always leave a more lasting impression than being right.
What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each page of the history.
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.
Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate with people.
He might never hear of them again in his life. Or there again, he might. That was the joy of travelling. Anything could happen
Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.
To eat or be eaten, to escape or be taken...a matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.
My retelling of events to Zoe is what grounds them, shapes them, makes them real. If I can't tell Zoe about kissing Danny Spinelli, it didn't happen.
I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.
The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.
Sometimes something happens and you find that all the people you knew are like nothing and someone you never saw before will reach out a hand to help.
It is so easy to have our eyes opened, but then close them again, pretend it never happened, and go back to doing what has always been done.
But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.
Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.
The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience.
Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret." Odd Thomas
A real, true love that makes a human being believe in the power of destiny happens only once in a lifetime.
Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?” “They’re ravished in haylofts?” she inquired hopefully.
And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to crawl into.
