A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.
With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.
We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They deserve beautiful resources and symbols that make sense. If a picture does not explain visually, it is pointless and the child will...
Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people...
You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.
Knowledge is always one of the fiercest of advantages a lady can have.
His action was inexcusable, but it was forgivable.
Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.
The creative mind seeks chance and accident while everyone else seeks control and order. Rod Judkins ‘Change Your Mind
The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.
Never strive to be part of the norm. If people think you strange...CELEBRATE. Normal people try way to hard to please others and never end up pleasing themselves. Be ABnormal. It's more fun.
And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.
Something snapped inside Maryse. “He is not a Herondale. He is a Lightwood. Jace Lightwood. He’s my son.
The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you own nothing. It is a matter of realizing that your happiness does not depend on your ownership of thin...
The other important thing to understand is that as humans we see only a segment of reality in the greater cosmic scheme of things, so we are really never in a position to judge anyone or anything.
The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.
Excerpt: Here are some thoughts from Charlene the Star: “I’ll bet that’s why Mama put the word “Star” in my name. I have a feeling I’m going to be a star as a jumper.
They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.
If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
