K.A. Last Quotes
I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.
On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance.
Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.
Was I a secret not worth sharingOrWas I a fact not worth telling?
That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart.
Hypocrites, ’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.
That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.
Never allow any level of success to steal your humility. You are not the first person to succeed on earth
how lovers alter in the glance of each other, that space where their moods are accepted and their surrender is never taken advantage of.
Loving isn't about selecting only the good parts. It's about taking the whole and loving the lot.
Change Your Energy, Change Your Life
And she thought if you don't have the desire to fight or wait for something there's no reason for being on earth.
We hope you have found challenge in your path this morning.” -- Laniel, Abbot of Bilkar the Furred
Virtues are the internal qualities that allow us to be our best selves and enable us to lead complete and fulfilling lives.
Dear girl, it will be a very long road if you spend more time looking backwards than forward.
Sometimes you have to make choices, and they're imperfect, but they're the only choices you can make and live with yourself.
There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.
By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.
All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.
What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?
...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering.
Breakfast seemed to be a good time for throwing your emotions around. Jodie said that at this place emotions were like Frisbees – people just tossed them around all day long like they were at a park.
A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies.
We don't steal from the rich and give to the poor. We steal from the poor because they can't fight back --most of them-- and the rich take from us because they could wipe us out in a day.
Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?
After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl.
Good can sit in the distance, just beyond your view, waiting, until you go toward it.
Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.
I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal--stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine was so bleak.
For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn.
I couldn't imagine myself doing it anymore. It was part of my life that had ended for me, and here was my chance to set out on a fresh course
If you do believe in God, and your first instinct in all things must be gratitude: for creation, or love, for mercy.
She'd whisper to me to take my tiny piece of happiness, hold its honey in my mouth until it melts away.
If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.
If not his life, Rustom Iraqiwalla wanted his death to be worth something.
The poor are not allowed to own thoughts, he told his young son.
I don’t have home without him”, Carrie said when doctor asked her to go home.“I won’t give up on him. Do you hear me, Doctor? Don’t you give up on him!
Relax in your own home, Kylie. It's one of the few places on earth you're free to be as you really are.
I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.
It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long
There are two times in a person's life when there is the possibility of pure happiness: in youth and in summer.
When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.
If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.
Of course there’s another choice, he thought. There is always another choice. I’m just not going to take it.