There's a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself.

Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.

He was so far away now, or maybe he just looked distant because we were imaging different things for our future.

Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back?

I did have a friend, ' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you, ' the Wally replied.

There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly,

I had seen the few things I cared about forget me seamlessly. I had seen the life I never really fit into heal up around my absence like a wound scabbed over.

There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

God is faithful, He will fulfill His word

We are so busy trying to make a better TOMORROW that we forget to make the best of TODAY.-RVM

Next to God thy parents.

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

I do think there's something when you have an unbroken day, and it feels like you and your attention can just be together like birds again and you can actually think and dream a little.

There will be a moment of silence while our prints do the talking.

Have you ever held a snake? Well, let me tell you, it is so erotic.

10 days before the death of St. John Paul II, in that Via Crucis of Holy Friday, Joseph Ratzinger said to the whole Church that it needed to clean up the dirt of the Church.