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It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.
I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating
They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am.
The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.
Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.
I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.
No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.
We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.
I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.
Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
Inside I knew he was meant to be the guy that taught me about life. Even if he broke my heart eventually.
I'll probably always love him. Doesn't mean I can ever trust him again. That doesn't make a relationship.
Everything I've done in my life has been dictated by the fact that I like to be home at night and in bed.
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something.
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.
Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place.
It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.
We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.
Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.
I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.
Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.