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Doubt is easy when it is not a matter of survival: we are as sceptical as we can afford to be, and it is easiest to be sceptical about things that do not fundamentally sustain us.

Does beauty give birth to love or does love give birth to beauty? Every one of our lovers offers different solutions to the problem of beauty, and yet succeeds in redefining our notions of attractiveness in a way that is as original and as idiosyncratic as the landscape of their face.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

The Lord wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away his hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.

The point is to keep him feeling that he has something, other that the enemy and courage, to fall back on, so that what was intended to be a total commitment to duty becomes honeycombed all through with little unconscious reservations.

The point is to keep him feeling that he has something, other that the enemy and courage, to fall back on, so that what was intended to be a total commitment to duty becomes honeycombed all through with little unconscious reservations.

Humour lined the walls of irritation between our ideals and the reality: behind every joke, there was a warning of difference, of disappointment even, but it was a difference that had been defused

Therefore, in the mature account of love, we should never fall at first glance. We should reserve our leap until we have completed a clear-eyed investigation of the depths

The threat of the great 'I like you' could be softened by adding, 'but not so much that I will let you know it directly ..." Chloe and I were politely sparing each other the need to pay the full price for a candid declaration of love.

Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self- knowledge.

“Words are home to me. Quotes, lyrics, and even single words on their own—they hold something in them that can make your heart bleed or soar. Sometimes the absence of them can hold as much meaning

“We pass strangers daily and forget that they have their own story. We are minor characters in theirs as they are ours. So I learned to listen and let them tell me theirs.

“It amounts to, get a beer, loosen up, and talk about random things. But coffee is reserved for more serious conversations. Coffee is life changing.

“Time is interesting. It resists our wish to stand still and traps us in continual motion”

“I was a piece of dust floating in the sunlight, seen at times, but unable to be found in the chaos of motion”

“There was a satisfaction in being right and a terror in finding so much evidence that the world didn’t work the way you or most other people thought it did.”

“If you worried you were crazy, was that any indication that you were not crazy? Or less crazy? She’d settle for less crazy at this point.”

“knowledge was like a painful sliver trying to work its way out, constantly there, just under the surface, impossible to escape, impossible to eradicate, and before long, impossible to ignore.”

“Why don't you focus on where you're going and less on where you come from? Why don't you focus more on what makes you brilliant and less on what makes you angry?”

“Because the world isn’t divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything”

“Clary: her sharp bravery that kept him safe, her sharper wit that kept him sane, the steadiness of her love.”

“When my hair has all turned gray,” a swoop and a twirl beside the kitchen table, “will you kiss me then and say, that you love me in December as you do in May?”

“Was it as Ada had suggested, that we can choose our own endings, joy over sorrow? Or does the cruel world just give and take, give and take, while we flounder through the wilderness?”

“We needed to do things for ourselves. Does that make any sense? To break your own ground and know it’s yours, free and clear. Nothing taken for granted”

People do what they're supposed to do and then wait for you to pile on the appreciation.

Sleep is like a cat. It only comes to you when you ignore it.

You cannot speak about faith without talking about obedience.

Loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary people, is the central and inevitable feature of human existence. (wolfe)

“ I was the type of girl that would ‘jump off of a bridge’ to spite my friends.”

there is a certain freedom in gettin our feelings of redemption from God and not other people. This is what we have always wanted, isn't it?