Aurora, you’re a child, live like one, don’t act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.
He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.
The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless – the action, indifferent.
How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?
If you can get to be you, why can’t I get to be me?
I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth – and get loads of therapy – to have that?
He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.
He tried to disguise how tired and ill he was, how depressing the thought of death was to him and how he spent his days and nights thinking up schemes of living beyond what the prognosis said. His hope, if not his heart, would find a way.
He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct.
There was no need to analyze the feelings that the people caught in the commission of the amorous act, held for each other, for it was literally written in their hands.
I cannot imagine a sentence more severe than a person limited not by his or her own abilities but by the opinions and expectations of others. And having been made to organize in such a way, comes the remuneration, but no penance or escape.
My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations.” – Jane Adams
It was clear that the house was run on a certain system, of either great pomposity or great denial – it was too early for her to make up her mind about which one it was.