My point is that it's really hard for people to live their lives alone.
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That things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence.
It's all pointless—assuming you try to find a point to it. We're coming from somewhere, heading somewhere else. That's all you need to know, right?
A rest area on a highway is just a place you pass through. To get from here to there.
You seek a voice, but what do you get? Silence. You look for silence, but guess what? All you hear over and over and over is the voice of this omen. And sometimes this prophetic voice pushes a secret switch hidden deep inside your brain.
The world is a huge space, but the space that will take you in—and it doesn't have to be very big—is nowhere to be found.
A dark omnipresent pool of water. It was probably always there, hidden away somewhere. But when the time comes it silently rushes out, chilling every cell in your body. You drown in that cruel flood, gasping for breath. You cling to a vent near the ceiling, struggling, but the air you manage to brea…
It's like one of those Greek tragedy masks in a textbook that's half one idea and half the opposite. Light and dark. Hope and despair. Laughter and sadness. Trust and loneliness.
The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be very useful in the real world, that's for sure.
I do not know how one becomes the type of person who makes her bed, but I have a sneaking suspicion it begins by making my bed.
From now on—no matter what—you've got to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following me?
Not that running away's going to solve everything . . . No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.
Your life's just begun and there's a ton of things out in the world you've never laid eyes on. Things you never could imagine.
I'll tell you one thing, though. You're going to get a lot tougher if you want to make it.
You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's lefts is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically you gotta go with what you think is right.
Money isn't like mushrooms in a forest—it doesn't just pop up on its own, you know.
Be content with where you're at. You will inevitably stumble a bit, but that's all part of the learning process.
All my life I dreamed of being a writer. I knew that, if I worked hard enough, one day I would reap the reward for my efforts, that people would finally take me seriously for my literary merit.
Is Love alone worth living for — worth dying for? Is it the only satisfying good we can grasp at among the shifting shadows of our brief existence? In its various phases and different workings, is it, after all, the brightest radiance known in the struggling darkness of our lives?
Old as I am, I long for youth — the everlasting youth of which the strength and savour fails not. I have lived long enough to know the sameness of this world — though there is much therein to please the heart and eye of a man — but with that roving restlessness that was born within me, I desire to s…