You've got to hide your love away. You can't just hide your feelings. You have to destroy them. Kill them before they kill you.
I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.
It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.
The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness
I wondered how he'd learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken.
Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
I think at first I wanted to kill all of them. Everyone. Because if there were no people left alive, then I’d never have to love one of them again.
The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.
Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.
Understanding people’s difficulties and—just as crucial—helping people understand their own difficulties teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.
I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities,and right away they loved them and decided to fight for them. That isn’t my story.
After a few awkward moments, Lizzy joined them and they skipped along the avenue, the three of them, laughing and whooping and altogether making an undignified spectacle of themselves.
I suppose therefore God is the connoisseur of filthied hearts and souls, and can see the old, the first pattern in them, and cherish them for that.
We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.
If you want to govern the people, You must place yourself below them. If you want to lead people, You must learn how to follow them.
Dreamers have a territorial seed in them that give them the power to possess, to dominate and to influence the world.
Which is more valuable into showing how I think: the order I think of things, or the order in which I arrange them once I’ve thought of them?
The thing about friends is, you never know when you might need them. It's always best to keep them imprisoned nearby.
