Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.
Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.
You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.
There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and. . . the third I can't remember.
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness
Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.
Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.
The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic is the elemental stuff of art. In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do-spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.
Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.
I knew I could not live my life around a husband, now would I want a husband to live his life around me. Of course, there are any number of variations in marital relationships between those extremes. But there is always a need for spouses to change their behaviors or habits to suit each other. I have always been set in my ways and did not fancy changing my behavior or lifestyle.
You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now. " Alec stared at him in horror. "Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way.