When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.
We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.
Una volta qualcuno mi ha detto che se trasformi il tuo cuore in un'arma, prima o poi finisci per usarla contro di te.
They slink up beside you, and whisper I thought you should know. Then they proceed to destroy your confidence, and trust, and even the quality of your life with their disgusting fragment of the truth....
There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. W...
There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.
There is no believing in God. We either know God, or we do not.
There are only one million of them, the truly evil men, in the whole world. The very rich and the very powerful, whose decisions really count—they only number one million. The stupid men, who number t...
There are many things I have done that I can say, I am not proud. But there is only one act in my whole life that I can say, I am truly ashamed of it. I hurried past that great man, and I had money en...
The worst things that people do to us always make us feel ashamed. The worst things that people do always strike at the part of us that wants to love the world. And a tiny part of the shame we feel, w...
The wonder and sustaining solace of it all is that were not alone: we’re never alone if we live and we journey onward to new cities, new adventures and new dreams in the search for meaning, and purpos...
The moon, our lonely sister, filters pain and harm from sunlight, and reflects it back to us safely, free of burn and blemish. We danced in moonlight on the balcony that night, Oleg and I, and we sang...
The fully mature man or woman, he said, has about two seconds left to live.
The fugitive kind run, trying against their hearts to annihilate the past, and with it every tell-tale trace of what they were, where they came from, and those who once loved them. And they run into t...
The evil men are the power—the rich men, and the politicians, and the fanatics of religion—whose decisions rule the world, and set it on its course of greed and destruction.
The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and
The bride’s father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. ‘The groom has just sha...
Tell us Lin. I would like to know.Well, if you press me, I’d have to say freedom.The freedom to do what? he asked, putting a little laugh in the last word.I don’t know. Maybe just the freedom to say n...
Silences can wound as surely as the twisting lash.
She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel...