Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.
Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.
...losing a friend is like losing a language, and I miss the one we spoke together.
All right, I figure I got a beating coming. Let's get at it." "That's not why I came." "Why did you then?" "To find out why you did it." Jeff looked at the floor. "I don't know." "Want to do it again?
There is nothing I can give to the lost, except this: I have a responsibility I need to fathom. I have a sorrow I cannot weigh.
Do I believe in God? Sure. So I believe the Bible is the arbiter of theological knowledge? There it gets a little hazy.
The highest men are calm, silent and unknown...The true masters seldom reveal themselves, except in the vibrations the leave behind, and upon which the lesser gurus build their doctrines.
For me, adoption was grief in reverse.
True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed.
Do you think heaven's like that? Could be worse, said Serge. You know all those pushy people who keep telling us we're not going to heaven? It could be full of them instead.
Cries for help are frequently inaudible.
Each of us is shaped by the truth of our natures. Von to Silver
Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.
You’ve remained on the battleground, center stage, experiencing life and, what’s more important, experiencing yourself experiencing it. You haven't been reduced to a logistical strategy for somebody else's life-war.
Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignoran...
Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for ‘pleasure derived from the misfortune of others’? Schadenfreude.
They accepted my donation, so they're aware they'd better serve my interests or I'll buy some leadership that will.
It was then that I realized I wasn't afraid to lose my life; I was afraid to lose the life I could've lived.
Beer does not satisfy magic, however. So the magic ordered a round of Harvey Wallbangers. But it takes more than vodka to fuel magic. It takes risks. It takes EXTREMES.
All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory.
William: My brother has an appreciation of art, so I imagine the woman he chooses must be beautiful beyond the pale. Once he outgrows his current predilection with painting and accepts his family responsibilities, he'll need a wife who can move throu...
