So I hear they call you 'The Freak' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain. '
Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.
And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.
I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.
for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.
Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened.
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?