The more you had, it seemed to me, the larger your border that needed defending.
We don’t forgive people because they deserve it, she said. We forgive them because we deserve it.
The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.
The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be transformed into action. Contemplation was like sitting on a commi...
The sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you never, ever, get your fill.
People cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom. It
The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.
There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.
These are not men of great imagination, but one can hardly blame them for not being prepared for this particular contingency, the sight of a tweet-jacketed, tenured, middle-aged, senior professor and...
They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving,
They turned down the narrow alley that led to the Woohvorth’s
Though here his voice faltered, because he knew as well as she did what came next, what words came next. If he could speak them, he might even convince her they were true, as his father had convinced...
Throughout his life a case study underachiever, Sully—people still remarked—was nobody’s fool, a phrase that Sully no doubt appreciated without ever sensing its literal application—that at sixty, he w...
Tick's strategy for dealing with lying adults is to say nothing and watch thee lies swell and constrict in their throats. when this happens, the lie takes on a physical life of its own and must be eit...
To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal.
To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibr...
Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted. And, of course, my idea of en...
Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
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