One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

Self-determination is self-reliance.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.

I am in love with the stars of night - I have made them audible...

It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

After two or three sessions of meditating on your heart chakra, it will no longer be necessary for you to physically touch your chest. You will sense the spot automatically.

If you are so inflamed that you can't train, and ibuprofen and fish oil help with inflammation, maybe you'd better take the ibuprofen and fish oil.

I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron)