T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.
There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink!
Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.
The failure of so many marriages is due to their getting married out of animal passion and not out of love.
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl, for a vampire.
He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.
Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work.
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.
Now I lay facedown on the bed, sobbing for the woman who once slept here not knowing that someday one of her worst fears would come true
You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.
Because I love you. And I hurt you. I hurt the person I love most in the world, and i will never forgive myself.
The Ladies Buddenbrook from Breite Strasse did not weep, however - it was not their custom. Their faces, a little less caustic than usual at least, expressed a gentle satisfaction at death's impartiality.
Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else.
I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.
At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!
She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be.
