..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.
Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.
Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.
The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.
Children are born atheists. Then they are indoctrinated and abused by so-called 'God's representatives.' Innocents are scarred emotionally and psychologically by those who are sworn to protect them.
Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.
So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.
Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
Regarding both Misty and myself he was egotistical, rude, obnoxious, condescending, insensitive, and mean-spirited⎯and those are his qualities.
Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.
The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt.
The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.
I am innocent! But only because the opportunity to partake in an activity that would render me guilty has not presented itself.
We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.
The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death... And they should! ...For they are in life.
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.
The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.
He forced my soul back into innocent belief, not by empty words or false promises but by consistent action that never failed. He was safe.
