I’m ruined beyond repair, is what I fear…And if so, in time we’d both be wretched and bitter.” “I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don’t see why not you.” “Why not me?
He said, I’ve been coming for you on a hard road. I’m never letting you go. Never.
He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.
They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say ‘Shit, it’s raining!
They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, ‘Shit, it’s raining!
It’s a good thing war is so terrible or else we’d get to liking it too much.
Inman’s only thought looking on the enemy was, “Go home.
We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.
…I had always believed prayer ought to be conducted on our feet rather than on our knees, since God seems in all other departments of life to require us to stand upright and account for ourselves.
Back then, he’d have to leave at the end of August for the start of school, so the week before Labor Day became it’s own tiny season of gloom, like a hundred Sunday nights crowded together.
He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.
Desire abides. It is all people have that stands proof against time. Everything else rots.
The flame of urgent coupling burned hottest against the woman, no matter how romantic and high and heartsick the anguish of the man might be pitched in retrospect.
Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.
It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.
His best talent had yet to be determined, unless you counted unrealized potential.
You try your best to love the world despite obvious flaws in design and execution and you take care of whatever needy things present themselves to you during your passage through it. Otherwise you’re worthless.