When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—’‘Sometimes you can’t believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you’re afraid to believe...
Understanding how or why is very seldom as useful as understanding that things are. I am.
Most of being a woman hurts.
Innocent? He was incensed at her suggestion he was somehow responsible for this mess. I’ve done nothing wrong, I intend nothing wrong. I am innocent!Half the evil in this world occurs while decent peo...
Happy comes and goes, Tats. Loving someone isn’t that crazy infatuation that you feel at first. That passes. Well, not passes, but it calms down, and then sometimes, when you least expect it, you get...
For a very brief period I was happy, and, an even rarer gift, I knew I was happy.
Did you feel that?' I asked him.He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits.
Who loves you or who you love is not as significant as who you are. Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they coul...
Perhaps the greatest thing one can discover is that you can decide who you are. You don't have to be whom the Ludlucks made you. You don't even have to be who you were before that. You can choose. We...
In my opinion, men deny animals have feelings and thoughts for one basic reason: so they won’t feel guilty about what they do to them. But
I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.
I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.
There can be no misunderstandings if there are no understandings at all.
Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.
It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man.
I never confuse the cost of something with its value
Don't go mooning after the stars, when the wide sea is all around you. It's a sky of its own, you know.
When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider
Useless to worry until we find ourselves blocked, Nighteyes pointed out. If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand st...
To Fitz and the Fool.My best friends for over twenty years.