“Moments come and go; quick flickers in time. Yet those moments can have the profoundest impact on our lives. Either we seize them, and wield them to our needs, or we let them go. It’s the moments we let go that, I believe, remain with us strongest—because regret is something that never leaves us.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“I love you, too, baby girl,” he whispers. “Here, there, forever.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Sometimes we have to hit rock bottom before we can make our way back up.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“How do I save him, and let you go at the same time? How do I do that?”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“I’m not going anywhere. The good, the bad, and the ugly . . . remember?”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“I envy the river. It moves, flows, and keeps going. Unlike me.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“I didn’t know what life was until death came to my door.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“man. Maybe you’re broken, but so am I. Broken doesn’t mean we’re valued any less, it just means we’ve loved someone so much and so fiercely that losing them feels like we’ve lost part of ourselves. I”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Let’s put our crazy away for three minutes and just dance,”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“I pray I’ll get to remember this on the other side, that whatever higher being there is will allow me to hold tightly to this memory.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“This is only a dream; the two of us imagining what could have been in another time or another life.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Sometimes that’s all we really have to get us through the hard times. Something as empty and useless as words can be what keeps us treading water in the raging and unforgiving river that is life. And that is exactly what they’ve been for me.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Listen, I don't know you or what you've been through, but I know I'd give any-thing to still be alive right now, no matter what.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“It’s the moments we let go that, I believe, remain with us strongest—because regret is something that never leaves us.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Broken doesn’t mean we’re valued any less, it just means we’ve loved someone so much and so fiercely that losing them feels like we’ve lost part of ourselves.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“First off, guys don’t say BFF.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“and together we take turns narrating the life we’ll never have together.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“I want you. All of you. The good, the bad, and the ugly. I love you.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Johnny Cash, God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” he says. I can’t help it; I look up at Ike and smirk. “What? You’re not a Cash fan?” He gives me a sad look. “I am,” I whisper. “What?” he groans. “Beautiful and fantastic taste in music! Where were you when I was alive?”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Words have been the fine threads that have tied me to this world, forbidding me to disappear”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“You could have her if you wanted, but instead you’re choosing to sit here and be pissed off and miserable. Maybe you don’t deserve her.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“It isn’t intimate or sexual; it’s the comfort in finding someone who finally understands.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Grief. What a horrid thing it is, yet I hold tightly to it. The agony I feel is how I remember he was here, that he existed.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“The brothers are so different, polar opposites in fact, that I find myself drawn to each one for different reasons. One is so strong and responsible; so much so, not even death can keep him from taking care of those he loves. The other, broken and lost, wishing time could rewind on one hand, but using any method necessary to forget time on the other.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Not a cruel cold, more like wounded, like a warning to stay away; a broken cold.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“She’s a very drastic woman. Not even I could have predicted she’d do something like that.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“Somehow we’ve become tethered to one another, even though we both know our time together is limited.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“When her gaze meets mine, I see the sadness and the guilt in her eyes. I know she feels bad about wanting us both, but she feels worse because she knows I can do nothing about it, no matter what.”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
“I did look obvious. Son of a bitch. “Not yet, Charlotte, but soon,” he says,”
― B.N. Toler, quote from Where One Goes
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“As we will see from these pages man is mostly innocent, really potentially good, even naturally noble; and as we will stress, society is responsible, largely, for shaping people, for giving them opportunities for unfolding more freely and more unafraid. But this unfolding is confused and complicated by man’s basic animal fears: by his deep and indelible anxieties about his own impotence and death, and his fear of being overwhelmed and sucked up into the world and into others. All this gives his life a quality of drivenness, of underlying desperation, an obsession with the meaning of it and with his own significance as a creature. And this is what drives him to try to make his mark on the world, to try to twist it and turn it to his own designs, to bury over the rumbling anxieties; and this usually means that he tries to twist and turn others, make his mark on them, use them to justify his own problematic life. As Rank put it so bluntly: Man creates “out of freedom a prison.” This means everyman, in any society, from the most “primitive” to the most “civilized,” no matter what the child training programs or economic system.”
― Ernest Becker, quote from The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man
“Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Breathless
“I think I look like a leopard,” she remarked, pulling back to inspect her spotted arms and legs. Then that mischievous smile blossomed over her gorgeous lips. “Want to play connect the dots?”
― Jacquelyn Frank, quote from Elijah
“Той се ожени за нея, защото просто така се случи. Главният виновник за техния съюз беше едно пътуване до планината в нейната компания, плюс дебелия й брат и изключително атлетичната й братовчедка, която, слава богу, си изкълчи глезена в Понтресина. Имаше нещо толкова изискано, толкова ефирно в Елизабет, а смехът й бе така добродушен! За да избегнат набезите на множеството си берлински познати, те се ожениха в Мюнхен. Кестените тъкмо цъфтяха. Една много скъпа табакера се изгуби в тайнствена градина. Един от келнерите в хотела говореше седем езика. Оказа се, че Елизабет има нежен малък белег от операция на апандисит.
Тя беше вярна малка душичка, хрисима и нежна. Любовта й беше като бяла лилия, но понякога избухваше в пламъци и в такива моменти Албинус се самозалъгваше, че не му трябва никоя друга.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from Laughter in the Dark
“I am not my mother. I love her, but I am not her.”
― Michelle Zink, quote from Guardian of the Gate
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