Look at Columbus, or Magellan: looking back, historians call you an explorer, but at the time, you‘re just lost.
Only on a planet such as Coruscant, with no forests left, no mountains unleveled, no streams left to run their own course, could the Force have become so clouded.
When you fall, be there to catch you, I will.
The fear which troubles the life of man from its deepest depths, suffuses all with the blackness of death, and leaves no delight clean and pure.
They stood in the courtyard of Swangard Palace, too cold to be comfortable despite the sun, and they looked fully on one another, knowing that they were friends, and would always be.A lot of water und...
Our dreams go on forever, and our ambitions, and our hopes, and the great play of our ideas reaches for eternity.But we live in time. We die in time.
One of the hardest lessons we all have to learn is how few choices life gives to a civilized woman with any conscience at all.
When you look at the dark side, careful you must be ... for the dark side looks back.
The sun was setting on Coruscant. Shadows ran like black water, filling up the the alleys first, then climbing steadily higher, a tide of darkness rising to drown the capital. Twilight’s gloom spread...
She tell many Cathy story, but I still think your daughter good girl. He nodded reassuringly to Mom. Except for time start car on fire, he admitted. Then... little worry.
Grief lingers, and the ache of loss; those things don't change. But seeping into every leaf, a little guilty burns away each autumn, and falls, spinning down the river. Winter's long sleep begins, and...
The world is a giant eye, staring back at the stars. When it tires, it closes its lids--just as I am doing now--and gives way to dreams, which is why the night is so much more mysterious than the day.
The application of time and skill to frivolous things is the hallmark of civilized society,
Little Jang Li-Li, eight years old, misting the orchids in the Room of a Thousand Fountains. A bright day, sunlight pouring through transparisteel panels, Li-Li making puffs of water with her mister a...
How much of life is like this? Mark wondered. Is that what being grown-up means? Saying goodbye as often as hello?
Look for Joy: that's God's echo, and his footprint. Happiness . . . happiness and wittiness and cleverness do not count for much when the darkness falls. Joy is tougher.
We get a whole lifetime to learn just one lesson, Samuel Cane said. How to lose with dignity.
Mothers don't cry at weddings because they're sentimental-- xxx Mothers cry because they know how hard it's going to be.
Xxx each of us carries his or her own solitude. We are invisible and we cannot be touched.
To tell only the happy stories: that isn't life. It isn't true, and you deserve better. You deserve to know.
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