The bubble had subsided, leaving only a tiny scar, but the irrational fear of water never quite left her. I never allowed her to forget, not for a moment.
You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them.
But there is one cool thing about having a weirdo mother. She works so hard at remembering where she left herself she doesn’t have time to work on me.
I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily.
Don't cry over the shots you've missed; weep over the ones you've not taken at all. The bitterest regrets are for things planned but left undone!
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?
Bad thoughts can be dangerous if left to simmer and weaken the heart slowly and invisibly. Like termites that destroy the beams of a house, secretly, in the dark until it's too late and everything collapses.
You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened...
Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.
All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.
Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he’d spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart.
It was machines that scanned the heavens, machines that probed the space between atoms, machines that asked the questions and designed to experiments to answer them. All that was left for mere meat, apparently, was navel-gazing.
How do you explain to your friend's mother why a night out with friends has left her daughter dying from an ecstasy overdose?
Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.
Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.
Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.
It would almost be easier to never see her again tan to look into her eyes and know she'd left her love for him somewhere in the past.
I know I have a strong India connect. Is it Subhash Chandra Bose or my father who left my Austrian mother when I was one? - Catherine Khan
Life's most obvious truths are the hardest to see but once you've burned everything to the ground they are the only things left standing. André Chevalier
So life does flow, but not from left to right on a time scale, rather from inside out.
But memories got left behind while you kept walking on; every time you had to retrace your steps further to return to your memories, and sometimes it was better not to turn back at all.
