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The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he’s not telling you,” he said. “The most important thing he has to say is what he’s trying not to say.

Master of the Senate

The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there.

The Maine Woods

I once saw a cockroach try to step on a politician, because it thought it was vile and disgusting.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

Never Change

In nature everything is connected, interwoven, subject to natural law. We cannot separate ourselves from that, no matter how hard we try.

The Nature of Things - Navigating Everyday Life with Grace

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

No Longer Human

A sense of mission lost in ink's jagged outcrops. I was trying to tell myself what I must have known before in a form I wouldn't recognize at first.

Next Life

Try not to trip," she added. "We don't have time for a concussion today." I groaned. That would be just like me - ruin everything, destroy the world, in a moment of klutziness.

New Moon

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

I can’t sell you while you’re trying to sell me. So how about we just talk and call it networking?

#Networking is people looking for people looking for people

And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself. But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...

Nightmarish Sacrifice

Facebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks.

The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens

Be confident in your approach to success in having a better future. Take risks, try new things, become diligent, and find new techniques because in the end you will develop a compelling emotional element.

Neglected But Undefeated

Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none of them.

No One Belongs Here More Than You

There seemed no reason why she shouldn't try writing something in between, but she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same - you couldn't just soak it up and then squeeze it out again.

One Day

Love is like 9.75 plus .25. That’s 10, for all of you people trying to add fractions on your fingers. 

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

We made love like two people trying to make love like three people in the trunk of a car. 

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

I never let myself yearn for Buckley, afraid he might see my image in a mirror or a bottle cap. Like everyone else I was trying to protect him.

The Lovely Bones

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

The Laughing Corpse

The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

Life, the Universe and Everything

we have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they’re workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we’re on the right track.

The Lost Gate