“Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.”

It hurts being the one who loves more

It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

It’s frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.

But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing.

The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.

Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me – a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand days I’d loved him as my everything, long after I’d begun to love him as a friend.

Sometimes love is quite, lingering in the background until you least expect it. But love it always there for you

I care,” he said in a trembling voice. “I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how.

I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.

Sadness doesn’t equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.

Being brave doesn’t mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it’s the right thing to do.

Keep trying until you have no more chances left.

Love is the way I feel for you, the way you fill something inside me whenever you so much as walk into the same room.

Sometimes we misjudge what is possible and what is not.

Harry Potter changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mothers death.

Whatever obstacles you face, remember you can get through anything if you want to badly enough.

Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.

I ain’t got no reverse. I’ve learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

With great power… comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.