“Sure, they all have iPods, smartphones, whatever. Generally speaking, it’s in our own best interest to keep some kind of electronic device in their hands. Otherwise they might talk to us.”
“It’s not the flying that’s the hard part; it’s the landing.”
“The past has a will of its own. It wants to be heard.”
“why worry about the monster beneath the bed when a very real bogeyman sleeps on top of it?”
“I know you have a past, but personally, I’m vested in our future.”
“I’d clawed my way back to the land of the living. Because of Vero. She needed me.”
“asked Thomas; it’s just him and me and has been for a very long time. We tell each other we are”
“look at him. But I can’t. Too many things are exploding in my head, and the memories are both simpler and more horrible”
“couloir étroit en l’aidant à contourner les obstacles, à savoir les camés en”
“chore. You didn’t like me doing”
“Because what is love if not an exercise in faith.
Because what is love if not perseverance.
Because what is love if not forgiveness.”
“No more can I be sever'd from your side, Than can yourself yourself in twain divide:”
“Third step, get to know her surroundings so she could get out of there. Or at least try. That’s what the heroine always did, right? And they said romance novels never taught anyone anything. She’d prove them wrong. And get the heck out of there.”
“You know, I believe that people need to find what they love to do most in the world, what they're best at, and then they need to use that ability to make the world better.”
“The doors of decision are one-way only. You can never go back. I’ll never be the same person again.”
“Deny everything and you will easily pass for a man of ability; it's a well known trick. Simple hearted people are quite ready to conclude that you are worth more than what you deny. And that's often an error. In the first place, you can pick holes in anything; and secondly, even if you are right in what you say, it's the worse for you, your intellect, directed by simple negation, grows colorless and withers up. While you gratify your vanity, you are deprived of the true consolations of thought;life--the essence of life--evades your jaundiced and petty criticism, and you end by scolding and becoming ridiculous. Only one who loves has the right to censure and find fault.”
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