... and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

As long as one suffers one lives.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

How the mind works, by what strange paths it pursues memory.

Be less than what you are so that you can become more.” ― Joseph Delaney, The Spook's Sacrifice

Mistakes are lessons by another name.

Some people are born to fandom, others have fandom thrust upon them.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States.

The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

I love the edited version of it.

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.