Better than I was, more than I am. And all of this happened by taking your hand.
you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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.
People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters. ’
Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.
The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the Church. And the wife is there to bless and support and help him.
I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.