Don't be nice to me, she whispered, though she didn't move away. I might cry if you are.
Jon smiled at him. I'm sorry about your wrist. Robb used the same move on me once, only with a wooden blade. It hurt like seven hells, but yours must be worse. Look, if you want, I can show you how to...
Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that...
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.
There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.
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...
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
A stranger may find beauty in you yet.