People aren’t poor because they make bad choices. They make bad choices because they’re poor.
Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.
I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and then rather serenely. The overall effect was overwhelmingly unapolog...
I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky." Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride
I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
I'm into mellow dates with really good food.
Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...