I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
I took a step back. "Here. " He plunked his wet hat on my head. "Don't go anywhere," he told me, then turned away.
What do you do with your anger when the person you're mad at goes off and dies? Bury it? Bury it inside you?
The problem for me is that I can't ever really see who Gregory is, any more than I can see what a mirror by itself looks like, because he reflects whoever's around him.
I glanced up at him. "I love things that are beautiful when you don't expect them to be.
Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.
I wouldn't have been sent back to help you," Tristan continued. "I wouldn't have been made an angel if it weren't important that you live, Ivy. I want you to be mine" -Ivy could hear the pain in his voice- "but you're not. " "I am!" she cried out loud. "We're on different sides of a river," he said, "and it's a river that neither of us can cross. You were meant for somebody else.
It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.
I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.