It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.

TimeYou were the oneI wanted mostto stay.But time could notbe kept at bay.The more it goes, the more it's gone—the more it takes away.

One day you will be nostalgic for today.

...you cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.

Some pieces will sing to your present, others may echo of your past, and the rest could whisper of your future.

There is a certain quality to words that when strung in a certain way--has an almost hypnotic effect.

I did not know that it was love until I knew.

He deftly dealt his swiftest blow--I fell further than, I was meant to go.

Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.

The glass bottle does not know its own contents. It has no idea whether it is a vessel for the most delicious apple cider, a lovingly crafted wine, or a bitter poison.

...but how could I have stopped him from taking what was already his?

Kisses are a shared solitude.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

I like wearing my dad's sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?

A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved.

Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

I have the motto that says, 'Whatever you see in your closet that you like, pick it and wear it.' It's not just your closet, but just your life. Whatever catches your eye. Pick it.