I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between.
Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.
Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
Jem leaned closer against the chair, staring into the fire. “Better it were my hands,” he said. Will shook his head. Exhaustion was muting the edges of everything in the room, blurring the flocked wallpaper into a single mass of dark color. “No. Not your hands. You need your hands for the violin. What do I need mine for?
Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners.
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.
If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
Learn to live on the edge.
The characters have desperation and it doesn't work out for everyone. Maybe it's not fair because I'm responding to the adaptations that smooth out the edges.
The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.
Where refugees seek deliverance that never comesAnd the heart consumes itself as if it would live,Where children age before their timeAnd life wears down the edges of the mind,Where the old man sits with mind grown cold,While bones and sinew, blood and cell, go slowly down to death,Where fear companions each day's life,And Perfect Love seems long delayed. CHRISTMAS IS WAITING TO BE BORN:In you, in me, in all mankind.
Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we have the answers - because we will never have those - but when we know enough to live it right out to the edges, edges sometimes marked by other people, sometimes showing only our own footprints.
Being out on the edge, with everything at risk, is where you learn and grow the most.
You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don't apologize for being who you are.
You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.
If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.