37 quotes
American writer
“And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.”
"There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire"
on Philosophy
"Those that yield are not always weak"
on Wisdom
"Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing"
on Dreams
"Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear"
"One must gauge one's trust carefully."
"We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more."
on Identity
"A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?"
on Compassion
"Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value."
on Life
"A little truth seasons a lie like salt."
on Truth
"It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion"
"Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted."
on Fear
"It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others"
on Happiness
"I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie."
"Spontaneity is the province of youth"
"This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike."
on Death
"The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart"
on Love
"Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade"
"If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised"
on Relationships
"Love as thou wilt"
"...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always."
on Writing