You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
There is always something left to love.
Time was not passing. . . it was turning in a circle.
When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy.
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
Don't allow anyone to steal your joy.
Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.
Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.