M.V. Carey Quotes
A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?
We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.
Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.
I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone.
I wondered if, by the time we'd been together as long as Phèdre and Joscelin, I'd be able to predict her reactions. I wasn't sure I would.I wasn't sure I wanted to, either.
If I had a box full of all the evils of the world, I'd open it just a little way and push you inside. Then I'd close it again for always.
Do not wander in the deeps, Where the Shriker's shadow creeps.When he rises from beneath, Beware the Sharpness of his teeth.
We stood side by side, and for that minute, in the stillness of that room, he was not the King. I was not not the Princess, taken against her will to the City. We were two people trying to forget.
Ever been so happy for someone and so aware of how lonely their happiness makes you feel at the same time?
She faces him, trying to take a breath that's long and level, trying to pull all the slopping emotions back inside so he won't see them in her face.
Pritchard tutted. "Justice? Justice is even more problematic than truth. It's an emergent property of a very complicated system.
All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.
...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.
You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.
I wished to no longer hear the grayed bones crunching underneath the brush or feel the now inexorable fear that seemed to work its way inside my rib cage, rocking me at my core.
Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all.
More and more I don't have any philosophy about writing, except that it is something we can do if God is good to us. Of course we are the ones who have to do the paperwork.
Please." It's one word, but the way I say it means so much more. Please don’t say anything. Please don’t look at me. Please don’t hurt me. Please just stay away. Please.
Loyalty is just the wheels on the bus ... meaning that it keeps things moving but it's neutral when it comes to the direction they move in.
Nothing goes on forever. If it did, there wouldn't be anything else, would there?
Jess wasn't religious. Not even a little bit. She thought all gods were basically big bully-boy cops dreamed up by people who wanted the laws they liked on Earth to be true everywhere else.
I’d stare up at the sky, reminding myself that Caleb and I were both underneath it. That wherever he was, whatever he was doing, we would always share something.
Because the bag is full of colours - starbursts and wheels and whorls of dazzling brightness that are as fine and complex in their structures as the branch is, only much more symmetrical. Flowers.
You don’t get to break someone's heart and think everything is fine just because you say sorry. That's just not fair.
Borrow money only for an education that will yield enough of a return in the job market to allow you to pay your loans back.
And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with.
God save our Gracious King Long live our Noble King God save the King. Send Him victorious Happy and Glorious Long to rule over us God save the King.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make and you must use your imagination to make it too just like anything else. It's all work work.
Of all the girls that are so smart There's none like pretty Sally She is the darling of my heart And lives in our alley.
We are a rather big-headed little species in a vast cosmos which can do without us very well.
She's in the club. The hopelessly-outnumbered-and-surrounded-by-monsters club.
She did not begin to tell real lies until Rosa was in hospital suffering that filthy rot that left her all eaten out inside, as light and fragile as a pine log infested with white ant
No amount of expertly choreographed PR could prevail, in the end, against Armageddon. It strolled over the barricades and took its pleasure.
Being a celebrity, you always get really good seats to sporting events, but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports.
I love giving gifts. It's almost like I don't open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas 'cause I want to give everyone else their presents.
Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it's even summertime.
You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'
So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
Trust is not very easy for me at all. I want to be a trusting person, but I've been bruised so many times - not to sound woe-is-me about my life.