“If Heaven ain't filled with gender-swapping Indians," I said, "then I don't want to go there.”
― You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
― You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
“...being in love can change almost anything: from your expectations and limitations to your very life plans. It's a completely unpredictable force. And how it operates within any particular relationship is a total mystery to anyone outside of that...”
― Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
― Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
“I will cover minor and major human settlements equally, because most of those which were important in the past have diminished in significance by now, and those which were great in my own time were small in times past. I will mention both equally because I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.”
― The Histories
― The Histories
“Cleverness is a false presumption', Doc had explained, 'it is like being a natural skater, you are so busy doing tricks to impress that you do not see where the thin ice is and before you know, poof! You are in deep, ice-cold water frozen like a dead herring. Intelligence is a harder gift, for this you must work, you must practise it, challenge it and maybe towards the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow whereas intelligence is the substance.”
― The Power of One
― The Power of One
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