I get to live forever," he repeated. Luce was still lost, but he kept talking, a stream of words pouring out of his mouth. "I get to live, and to watch babies being born, and grow up, and fall in love. I watch them have babies of their own and grow old. I watch them die. I am condemned, Luce, to watch it all over again and again. Everyone but you. " His eyes were glassy. His voice dropped to a whisper. "You don't get to fall in love--" "But. . . ," she whispered back. "I've. . . fallen in love.
I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.
The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie.
I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.
Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.
Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.
I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.
She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.
Nobody really knows her Except the chosen few Her secrets are kept hidden Behind that sun-kissed hue. If I reach out to touch her She’ll just run away My Forever and Always Will have to wait another day.
Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
If you want to - if you want to engage in conspiracy theories that the White House and the vice president intended no one to ever know - like "The New York Times" - we would have been kept in the dark forever. I just think that's completely irrational.
All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. . . . Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union.
I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.
There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it
She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.
There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.
I developed physically and mentally to take such a big step in my life and in my profession, which is boxing, knowing that it would have pros and cons, highs and lows in this sport that is so macho. I kept this hidden for many, many years.
When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.