I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
You can think whatever you want, do whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.
Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.
Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn't surprised, since she'd always had a thing for animals. She'd lectured me for days after I'd instigated the infamous hamster-and-hermit-crab fight. I'd viewed the fight as a testing of worthy opponents. She'd seen it as animal cruelty.
I need you,ʺ said Lissa. ʺI hear that from women a lot,ʺ said Adrian.
You're better than this. Better than whatever it is you're going to do now.
The future is always changing. If we had no choices, there'd be no point in living.
The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the Gnostics. . . Its studies were only kept alive during the Dark Ages among the Jews who were the chief exponents of its Cabalistic aspect. . . and it is still alive today.
Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.
One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.
I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t keep up.