Emotion,' she told him, 'is not a reliable guide for our words and actions.''There you are wrong,' he said. 'Deep, true emotion is our surest guide. We make our greatest mistake when we allow our head...
Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.
It is stronge how smells can bring back vivid memories.
I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.
And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.
And infatuated be damned. He was near to being blinded by his attraction to her. He was in love, damn it all. He disliked her, he resented her, he disapproved of almost everything about her, yet he wa...
More annoying than her general righteousness. But Camille
The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.
It is foolish to regret anything form one's past.
I wish, he said, I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.
I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find th...
Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain.
I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.
Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, incl...
Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into i...
Insults are only really effective, she said, when the person insulted cares for the good opinion of the insulter
I am afraid that it will all be ruined. It is like stepping out into the darkness when one has a world of light and warmth behind one.
Why do I want to run from happiness?
I prefer to think of marriage as an equality of give and take.
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.Life itself had become a secret affair.