[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.
Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.
She wanted him to notice her so much.
At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.
I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.
The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
Will Hillary [Clinton] survive or will the villains. . . ? [James] Comey and the FBI and the Republicans, will they succeed? There isn't any coverage of whether or not Hillary actually broke the law. The media's not interested in whether or not she actually trafficked in classified data.
The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.