35 quotes
American writer
“One isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb."- Poppy (quoting Win)”
"Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb."
on Perseverance
"A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference."
on Perception
"The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed."
on Relationships
"Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible."
on Life
"... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect."
"Something happened to you, they discovered, when you were given the unconditional love and trust of a child.You wanted to try to deserve it."
on Love
"The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left."
on Resilience
"Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings."
"...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with."
"No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes."
"A well-read woman is a dangerous creature."
on Wisdom
"Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands."
"You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside."
on Self Awareness
"I'm agnostic," I told him. "I'd be an atheist, except I believe in hedging my bets."
on Faith
"It's a house. No more and no less. There isn't a structure on earth that could last forever. But a family goes on."-Leo"
on Family
"There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for."
"I refuse to believe that we’re going to go through life without something magical happening"
on Hope
"... But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them."
"You seem to think you have a choice," Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands."
"I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself."