It’s a Secret of Adulthood: What we assume will be temporary often becomes permanent; what we assume is permanent often proves temporary.
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
Hope is a waking dream.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
Capture your youth, while you can.
Love feeds on deception.
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...
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...
The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.