It is a pure soul who can hold true the innocence and timelessness of passion in another soul. Each unveiling the greatest pieces of the other, locked together at the heart for eternity
This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.
That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.
Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.
You know what?” he whispered, out of breath, “You’re about to be in a whole lot of trouble. We probably better go.
Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.
You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.
And when whatever happened in that barn happened, it was a moment I’ll never forget. Like a missing key slid into a dusty old lock. Click. My world opened.
'Why are you yelling at the television when you know they cannot hear you?' 'You wouldn't understand,' said Asher, his gaze locked on the screen. 'It's a human thing.'
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
I didn’t win a championship, but I did pop some champagne bottles—and a few locks. Why bother training when you can just steal the trophy?
Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.
You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.
The locked door in my house is just a diversion. The real valuable items are out in the open, where they are hidden from the unimaginative.
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