I wonder if she allowed the man to see her eagerness and scared him? Possibly her failure to wait quietly caused him to curtail the friendship.
Everything started as nothing.
The best fighter is never angry.
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.
I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.
Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.
To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.