When I look in the mirror, I know I'm looking at someone who isn't sure she deserves to be loved at all.
All this time I've hated myself for it. I thought I'd given it up for nothing. But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
Can you be a girl for a few seconds?" "I'm always a girl" I frown. "You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl" I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.
Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.
From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
What are men to rocks and mountains?
In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.
How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling his secrets." "Yeah," Jace said. "He's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always wanted to be a ballerina.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.