It Is In Things. Quotes
Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home.
The best things in life are beyond money
The controlled freak-out is a beautiful thing. (Ephesians 4:26)
I love her more than just a little. I think it's because we're both somewhat broken, in our own odd ways. More importantly, we're both aware of it.
I would like to care more about you than about my feelings for you.
love doesn't have to feel good in order to exist.
It is our determination to overcome fear and discouragement that constitutes the only effective antidote to the sense of powerlessness over unwanted feelings.
Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ago ... has allowed the figure of man to appear.
When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.
People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it
The scarcity of time is the reason we have to concentrate on one thing at a time.
The feelings resembled memories
Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.
She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...
And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.
His smile is too beautiful for this world, and I am dying of love.
I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn't know how to do it.
Whatever we sayWe're always telling each other exactly what we want them to know...We are always telling each otherThe truthEven when We're lying
I'm so tired of people who can't be honest. "Beauty is on the inside" Really?? Then why do rich guys & successful guys always end up with beautiful women but they have lousy personalities?.
Hypocrites, ’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.
Michelin Star? I’d rather chew a French rubber tyre.
Information is like water. It finds its way to all the wrong places.
But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.
It's not the things I don't understand about the Bible that bother me
Living in a galaxy is like living in a neighborhood where the house down the street might have burned down four thousand years ago but you wouldn't know it for another three thousand years.
There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.
Focus on the things that your dream is demanding from you
Thus are many identities, over time, shown to be temporary alignments of components involved in a deeper allegiance.
Kara do you love Brad?'All my heart.'Then how can you let him leave next year?'I guess love isn’t enough sometimes.
It’s better to be individual than a clone of someone else.
That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time
Instead they choose to accept their fallibilities. They recognised the simplicity and power of using a checklist.
The next morning, Angie woke with the sun...Her eyes felt gritty and swollen.Once again she'd watered her mattress with memories.
We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and has a significant impact on your focus.
I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get.
Because stories start in minds-- they aren't artifacts or natural phenomena.
These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.
The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.
Both fictions and memories are recalled and retold. They're both forms of stories. Stories are the way we learn. Stories are how we understand each other.
I never understood desire until i felt your hands around my throat.
He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .