We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
She found herself thinking of how it would feel to be safely trapped in his arms, with no more possibility to choose.
Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains
They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits, whose clear destiny is to coalesce at some point in space and time.
Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.
People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.
Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents them from truly touching. If you go on counting, you discover that these pairs gradually become rarer, lost in that silent, measured space made only of ciphers. You develop a distressing presentiment that the pairs encountered up until that point were accidental, that solitude is the true destiny. Then, just when you’re about to surrender, you come across another pair of twins, clutching each other tightly.
I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.
With every character you play you're always trying to put facets of yourself into those characters. I think Asher, at the beginning of The Giver, when he's goofy and a little bit of a rule-breaker, a little bit of a jokester, I align with him. But then he kind of transforms throughout the movie and becomes someone I don't necessarily relate to. I relate to Adam McCormick's sensitivity. He's more quiet and introverted, and I definitely have those moments as well.
Zee said, grumpily, “Liebling, this is not a good idea. ” “Zee,” I told him, “I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.
If clothes look like a couch or an ottoman or a love seat, you just wanna stay away from it.