Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.
The inaugural morning at Merston High was officially over. It was no longer a mysterious place in Melody's imagination, filled with endless possibilities and hooks on which to hang hopes for a better...
But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.
...all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad...
It was days like this when I felt it more than ever: I wasn’t a real human.
Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.
Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of...
Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the process until death.
Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.
