Even at its darkest moment, life was a precious gift.
And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.
Love does not last forever, then?He asked me the same thing this morning, she said. No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never reall...
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...
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 have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.
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The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.
Leave love to take its course.
It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever changing, different people at different times and under different circumstances and influences. And...
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.
You will find that wanting, even loving, is not enough.
You just have not...oh, learned who yo are yet.
The ladies perhaps had the advantage in the sheer size of
Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.
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...
Insults are only really effective, she said, when the person insulted cares for the good opinion of the insulter
Guilt can eat away at you and destroy the future as well as the past.
After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come b...