In that last dance of chancesI shall partner you no more.I shall watch another turn youAs you move across the floor.In that last dance of chancesWhen I bid your life goodbyeI will hope she treats you...
It doesn't work that way. Silencing memories does not make them stop existing. Events cannot be undone by forgetting them.
It doesn’t matter who a man’s father is. Your parents made a child, but it’s up to you to make the man you’ll be.
It is an odd language, yours. You speak of passing time as in the Mountains we speak of passing wind. As if it were a thing to be gotten rid of.
It is hard to write down a story that has no sequence or sense, let alone make a picture of what my dream showed me.
It is the way of the young to accept the debilitations of old age very gracefully on behalf of their elderly parents. And
It was all in your mind, Chade told me sometime later, and it stung that he dismissed so lightly all that I had endured. All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take pla...
It was all so meaningless when I looked at it that way. It was meaningless in the same way as when I stood up from a game and then looked down on the scatter of playing pieces, and realized that they...
It’s all my fault,’ I confessed to her. ‘Oh, Fitz, always you are …’ She bit back whatever it was she had started to say. More gently she added, ‘No one blames you.’ ‘I blame me.’ ‘Of course you do,’...
It’s that which is between the gardener and his bit of soil that makes a garden.
I’ve just been living from day to day. Waiting for something or someone else to change the situation. His eyes studied her face, looking for a reaction to his next words. I think I need to make a real...
Look at her. The sun soaks right int her and shines back out of her. She’s magnificent.
Love can exist without need
Many will rant and rave against the garment fate has woven for them, but they pick it up and don it all the same, and most wear it to the end of their days. You... you would rather go naked into the s...
My fate was a runaway horse, dragging destruction like a broken cart through so many lives.
My mother had told me to never be afraid to apologize when I was wrong. She had said it would have saved her and my father a great deal of trouble if they had only followed that rule. Then she had sig...
No matter what name they call us by, you will always be mine. And I am yours, Bee. And I will always do everything in my power to protect you. Do you understand that?... I will always need you. I will...
No one can have so little that someone else can find nothing to envy. Poverty and simplicity were not shields from the greed of others. If you had nothing left to steal, they'd take your body and ensl...
Not babies perhaps. But I know about young things. Foals, puppies, calves, piglets. Even hunting cats. I know if you want them to trust you, you touch them when they are small. Gently, but firmly, so...
Not every problem in the world belongs to you.
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