It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -
He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go either way.
A single thought, he considered, could do all sorts of harm. Harm to what, he wasn't sure, but he identified it as harm.
Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks.
I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.
As amusing as it was to see him lovestruck, we had to stay on track. I snapped my fingers in front of Marcus's face. "Focus," I said.
There’s a star in the sky that refuses to stay put, and Hadley realizes it’s actually a plane, that just last night, that star was them.
If you can be quiet, you’re more than welcome to stay in my House of Silence. Bring your own bubblegum ice cream.
Our memories and events in our lives are untidy things. We wish that we can file them away and shut the door, or wish the opposite - that they would stay forever.
If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.
Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.
Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what you feel.
Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
...But would that be enough? Because at the moment it felt like it could never be enough. People needed more than a place to stay, more than a porch to sleep on. They needed a home, right? They needed love.
He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked man.
What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.
Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to probably ain't legal.
Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.
He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.
it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.
But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
