I get to leave here and do what I love, whether I win or lose. And that seems to matter more than anything else.
No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.
No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more.
We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter." (p. 22)
No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross
Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.
We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval "ur-matter," atoms formed billions of years ago that have for a brief while been gathered into collections that think they are us.
No matter how hard you try to be a good person, to make choices that will lead to success, nothing is promised. Even the good and the innocent are damned from time to time.
No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isn’t really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face.
The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.
... but as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you.
You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try
It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.
When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.
What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?
No matter how beautiful women are, they’re always worried that they aren’t attractive enough. They need to be reassured. A few don’t, but even they appreciate the attention.
I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it.
It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, because anyone who knows you knows what a great guy you are on the inside. You're honest and true.
Once you know that you have a voice,” Louis said, “it’s no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.
