What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?
I wondered how much of me would be left after tomorrow.
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.
If you won’t marry me for the sake of your own honor, then do it for the sake of everyone who would have to tolerate me otherwise. Marry me because I need someone who will help me to laugh at myself. Because someone has to teach me how to whistle. Marry me, Lillian… because I have the most irresistible fascination for your ears.
What does your gut tell you?" "My gut and I aren't currently speaking to each other
How do I look?" Amanda asked. Jack shook his head ruefully as he glanced at her. No one could mistake the remaining flush on her cheeks, or the soft sparkle of her eyes, or her lusciously swollen mouth, for anything other than the results of physical passion. "Like you've been ravished," he said flatly. She astonished him by smiling. "Hurry, please. I want to go inside my house and consult a looking glass. I've always wanted to know what a ravished woman looks like.
We’ll continue our discussion later. Right now I intend to escort Miss Peyton to her room. ” “That is not a wise idea, in my opinion,” the earl said. “I’m glad I didn’t ask for it, then,” Simon returned pleasantly
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.
You can't manage creativity. You need to manage for creativity. You need to create the space for it to emerge.