A.T. Danielle Quotes
Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet… it’s so hard to let them go… to forget… to move ahead…
Somewhere inside you, I hope you know who you are. I hope you know what you are. I hope you know that you're powerful. We need you.
. . . parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond.
I thank God every day for bringing you into my life. I know I don't deserve you, but I'm a better man because of you.
Veins stood out in her temples as she struggled against her silence. No one noticed. Those words had already been used up, spent, thrown out into the atmosphere to dissipate without effect.
Perception is reality to the one in the experience.
Have you ever loved someone so much that even when they chip pieces away from you, you still try to give them what’s left? I know I have… I know I do.
The need to prove who you are will vanish once you know who you are.
I'm a seeker who writes about what I find. And maybe, on just the right day, I can help you flatten your learning curve. If I've got anything to say, it's this: you are the authority on you.
I can hear the tick tick tick in my head: A tripwire ready to explode in fury. And then, in my mind, I start to count down from ten…any moment now.
Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest.
I guess we’re all guilty at some point of failing to appreciate the small things, because when we use a broad brush to paint our exemplary lives, we splatter ourselves with ignorance.
I'm the parent. It's my job to be here for you, not the other way around.
Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated.
Many nights I watch the sun set. Many nights I watch the moon. They fascinate me. They’re the only things I get to share with everyone: the stars, the moon, the universe.
The human mind is a brilliant thing. Each person is capable of so much more than they give themselves credit for. I am only one mind amongst billions, though I still wish for my voice to be heard.
It’s like I’m on a roller-coaster ride, but I’m not allowed to get off. I’m strapped to the seat, and within eyesight the unfinished twirl of the track swirls into the air.
The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it.
And when my days run out, I will have lived just a blink of time and the rest will be eternal joy.
I will claim her, and I will protect her, and any who become her enemy? I will destroy.
He was gargoyle. Tonight, his mate would learn exactly what that meant.
She woke to Terak's claws raking through her hair and her body deliciously sore, well-used in the best sense.
I love you and I will until the end of time.And just as she said the words, two bright stars drifted past them overhead and disappeared into the night sky together…
Helen Sustained many falls throughout her life. But as you can see, she steps right up and keeps on going. Falling to her is as natural as sneezing to us
Given the choice between one lifetime spent with you or a thousand without, I will always choose you.
Since her diagnoses she has been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.
You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.
We do not believe in murder! We believe in convenience in our careers, in our cuisine, in our kills, and in our definitions.
Above her like this, he was a warrior god, hot and hard, demanding complete submission.
I’m not sure this is what we bargained for, boy. We expected the girl to be attractive.”If I hadn’t been so terrified, I would have been insulted.
We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality.
Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake.
We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.
Empathy--the ability to identify with someone else's suffering--is certainly a prerequisite for a genuine apology.
In general, empathy is easier the more we can identify with someone. When we can genuinely envision ourselves in a situation, it's possible to intuit what that person's suffering might feel like.
Hospital life--with its byzantine array of moving parts layered atop the unpredictable rhythms of illness--is a permanent state of flux.
But I realized that not only did I need to keep tuning my skills as a doctor, I also had to figure out a way to live with the uncertainty of medicine and its attendant anxiety.
Burnout also leads to a large swath of physicians who aren't as empathetic toward their patients as they could be.
Antonio, " Ash groaned, "you know I hate it when you eat at my desk." "I know, " Antonio replied, "but I don't mind and so long as one of us is reasonable, I figured why not?
On Writing: "A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.
Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.
