This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find;The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;
War comes home— invades it, literally— and every day is another combat. Only, there’s nothing available, nothing real to fight. And you never know when the next attack will come, only from whom it will come.
We had everything: love, attention, the best money could buy, but we were taught that we had to first give to then receive.
Don’t cry. She wouldn’t like it. When I missed my father, I used to cry. Mama taught me when I cry, he is sad and will cry, too. I don’t want my daddy sad. I’m sure you don’t want your daughter sad, too.
We have an obligation to feel guilty.” The words came out of her lips as if she were reciting an elegy. “Guilty. Because we kill the ones we love.
Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.
We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.
There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we stop to photograph, we can’t enjoy them, the flash overexposes them and they disappear.
Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to be committed.
He towered over her, as intense and savage as only he could be, making her feel small and delicate in comparison, surrounded by his utter maleness. She felt trapped and she wanted to stay in his cage forever.
I believe in witches, Sophia,” his deep voice hypnotized her.“I hope you don’t burn me at the stake,” she murmured to him.“I don’t burn witches. I set them on fire,” Alistair whispered so low Sophia thought she had heard wrong.
Some angels are too good to live their entire lives in this inferno. They come to Earth for only a short time because they have a mission.
As they walked away, hand in hand, they vowed to be together forever, not knowing that forever always ended.
If all of us in the world just shared love, just a little, charity foundations wouldn’t be needed.