Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's ...
I was sitting on the roof, and she didn't see me. I sit on the roof a lot. People never think to look up.
Your dissatisfaction with yourself speaks of a self-absorption, a vanity, which always gets in the way of your truly coming to rejoice in life.
There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.
It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it is...
I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.
Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.
Good God, I have taken leave of my senses. I never thank Delalieu. I've likely given the poor man a heart attack.
One always has to be willing to lose to be able to win... in battle and in life. I wonder. Are you willing to lose, Rayla?
Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.
—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?
Es natural condición de las mujeres desdeñar a quien las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece
Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.
He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy.
There is magic in all life.
Digital organization is essentially a dynamic, people-centered ecosystem.
It made our presence in the world meaningful; we still served a purpose.
It was too much happiness. Happiness puts you at too much risk - what if you were to lose it? Too much happiness is a paradox. It's a tragedy, even: getting something you've always wanted but being unable to keep it.
There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult.
I deny morality as I deny alchemy.
I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everyt...
