We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.
I felt like the sky around me was closing me in. Trapping me in some sort of bubble where time stands still and grief would linger on forever.
Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment
Sex only makes people more like themselves. A powerful, secretive woman becomes only more powerful and more secretive in the throes of passion.
Science, I am told, is making great strides, experimenting, groping after things which no sane man has ever dreamed of before – without being burned alive for it.
Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?
A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.
One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.
because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.
I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea— in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath.
He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor
The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.
Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return.
Kate Daniels, trained negotiator. When in possession of some valuable information, give it away to the first sexy man you see with no guarantee of return.
But sometimes, by the deserving and the fortunate, even that task is accomplished. And when it is accomplished— behold!— all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile— and the return to an eternal rest.
...There are no ‘what ifs.’ You have to jump in. You go in all the way or back off completely. Take her in with all that you’ve got or cut her loose.
What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.
Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.
Mortals live but their souls are little more than raw energy coursing through flesh. When they die that energy is broken down and returned to the cosmos. There is no heaven, and no hell. Only delusion.
The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.
If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.
