This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me.
This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.
This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.
Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into...
Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop e...
They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that. he said. Then, a moment later, he added: Oh,the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different for...
There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.
There in the dim light, staring at the shadow on the wall, I poured out the story of my life. (…) How nothing touched me. And I touched nothing. How I’d lost track of what mattered. How I worked like...
There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.
Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It jus...
Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did so, the waves of her consciousness pulsed through my fingertips and into me - a delicate reson...
The world [...] an endless battle of contrasting memories.
The well bottom is like the bottom of the sea. Things down here stay very still, keeping their original forms, as if under tremendous pressure, unchanged from day to day. A round slice of light floats...
The things we try our hardest not to lose, we really just put deep abysses in the spaces between them.
The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then th...
The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When...
The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless
The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first winds of winter slipped between the withered branches and ac...
The end of the race is just a temporary marker without much significance. It’s the same with our lives. Just because there’s an end doesn’t mean existence has meaning. An end point is simply set up as...