This Life Quotes

I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.

the scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .

If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.

But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

Sometimes it’s the complication, which just lies in our minds

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.

We are what we are.

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.

Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.

Time wounds all heals.

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.

We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.

I'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes.

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?