This Life Quotes
No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.
The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That’s how you learn who you are.
I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?
No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.
What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.
The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.
You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself
I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
To enjoy each breathing day, you have to set time aside to play.
When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.
It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.
If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.
There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.
What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?
People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?
You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?
Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.
my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.
At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.
Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.
Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.
Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.
It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.
Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.
