The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.
. . . when I came back, I found Mom sobbing at the kitchen table. . . Then I asked her what had happened. 'Nothing,'she said. 'I was thinking about that man. . . I started thinking about. . . if he and his wife and their other child are okay, and I don't know. It just got to me. ' 'I know,' I said, because I did know. Sometimes it's safer to cry about people you don't know than to think about people you really love.
The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.
I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it;s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.
The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, and I were showered with gifts at home and at Dads apartment. I thought that was great. I was all in favor of my love being paid for with presents. This year all I got was a diary and a secondhand watch. Okay, I know this is corny, but this really is what Christmas is all about.
So what if I don't learn algebra?' 'Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Things will be normal. You need to do your work now for when that happens. ' 'That's never going to happen,' Jon said. 'And even if schools do open up somewhere, they're not going to open up here. There aren't enough people left. ' 'We don't know how many people are like us, holed up, making do until times get better. ' 'I bet whoever they are, they aren't studying algebra,' Jon said.
history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.
There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back.
I want to hear people say, "Oh, he's matured. He's a grown up now".
My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away. . . literally.