Time And well being are two valuable belongings that we do not acknowledge and respect till they've been depleted.
You know. . . sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.
But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.
But sometimes life gives us those rare moments where we do see chance as it’s happening. And in those moments, we have a choice. And sometimes we have to take a risk. And it’s scary. It makes us vulnerable. But I know now it’s worth it.
I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.
We're all more than the person we show to everyone else.
Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.
I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.
It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.
Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.