Oh, the things we discover and the things we learn, much too late. Worse are the secrets that are not secrets, the sorrows we live with but do not admit to one another.
No man can return to being a boy. But there are interludes in a man’s life when, for a time, he can recapture the feeling that the world is a forgiving place and that he is immortal.
No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be.' She lifted her eyes and her gaze stabbed him. Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept...
Nenhum inimigo, bem sabia, é mais temível do que aquele que ferimos gravemente.
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...
Love is more than bedding, boy. If love doesn't come first and linger after, if love can't wait and endure disappointment and separation, then it's not love. Love doesn't require bedding to make it tr...
Look at her. The sun soaks right int her and shines back out of her. She’s magnificent.
Keeping a child from harm is not the same as rearing one.
It’s that which is between the gardener and his bit of soil that makes a garden.
It's a change, and I don't like changes, especially changes I don't understand.''Life is change,' the Fool observed lacidly. 'And death is an even greater change. I think we must resign ourselves to c...
It was possible to be homesick for a time, and to be lonely for the only other person who could recall it.
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 is the way of the young to accept the debilitations of old age very gracefully on behalf of their elderly parents. And
If you don’t decide what you will do with the rest of your life, someone else will decide it for you.
If we aren't fated to survive, then at least let us fight it to the end. Let it be fate that extinguishes us, not our own lack of heart.
If all I had ever done was to be born and discovered, I would have left a mark across all the land for all time. I grew up fatherless and motherless in a court where all recognized me as a catalyst. A...
If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss.
I wasn’t being fair to expect those things of him. But life wasn’t fair. Life does not wait for any of us to grow up.
I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.
I need a friend, and I have none to whom I can admit my weakness, my fear, my errors.