If you don’t know where you’re going, you should know where you came from.
If you don't know where your're going, you should know where you came from.
Ich hatte schon oft gehoert wie Augusta gesagt hatte: Wenn du etwas vom jemanden brauchst dann bau dem anderen eine Bruecke auf der ihr euch begegnen koennt.
I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world.
I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realize how it had comforted me. Quiteness has a strange, spongy hu...
I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.
I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.
I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and filled it up. The only think I could compare it to was the feeling I got one time w...
I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even, and the impassive way I'd treated them
How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.
Her name was Mary, and there ends any resemblance to the mother of our Lord.
Aunt-Sister said Charleston had a case of the grandeurs. Up till I was eight or so, I thought the grandeurs was a shitting sickness.
Women make the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.
From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.
Afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.
You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.
You know, some things don't matter that much...Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart - now, matters.
You know, Lily, people can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.
You just don't interrupt somebody's mourning with your own problems.