All I'm saying is that you shouldn't stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble ones. No one owes it to someone else to be their girlfriend. It's a choice you remake every day.

Time was like that, though - racing forward when she wanted it to slow down, then crawling to a stop when she could least bear it.

No - the light in Tamani's eyes was much more than a reflection. It was the fire that melted her anger and devestated her resolve, every single time she saw it.

I CLOSED MY EYES AND PRETENDED SHE WAS YOU. illutions- aprilynne pike

To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.

It's sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.