It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.
She wanted him to notice her so much.
At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.
I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.
Life takes on the meaning that you give it.
All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.
If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.