He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.
Light and dark ain't supposed to mix. They're like broccoli and chocolate - just nasty when you put them together - but that appears to be what's happening with you
That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as much as I have to say for it.
I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
The universe as a giant harpstring, oscillating in and out of existence! What note does it play, by the way? Passages from the Numerical Harmonies, I supposed?
She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.
I believe in fate and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life, so Mason could walk into yours.
Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
It wasn’t so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin?
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.
Suppose it’s your last day on earth. Have you done what all you wanted to do, you always dreamt of? If answer is NO, your time starts now.
Men were not supposed to be mushy, but one thing his mother taught him was that it was better to understand your feelings than hide from them
I think that is supposed to be good, that I get less from him but I feel worth less.
...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.
A brick could be used to remind me of you. Of course, so could a photograph, but how am I supposed to lob a photo through your car’s windshield?
We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.
It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed - not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else's.
You don’t look injured to me. What am I supposed to think? Have you been with them this whole time? My god, Brook. Where were you?
A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.
I don't know if it's responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamous binds, because I don't think we're ready for them. The romanticism within our culture dictates that that's what you're supposed to be looking for.
