Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
Stories never really end. . . even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said. . . "As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells. . . and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower. . . both strange and familiar.
Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
If unable to abstain from drinking, a man may get drunk three times a month; if he does it more than three times he is culpable; if he gets drunk twice a month it is better; if once a month, this is still more laudable; and if one does not drink at all what can be better? But where can I find such a man? If such a man were found he would be worthy of the highest esteem.
His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.
Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped me the most.
But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day.