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“Another day, another dolor.”
― Colum McCann

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"

"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."

"To establish ties?"

"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Knowledge is always a good thing, even when it makes us unhappy”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“We wish for a symmetry of feeling, but we rarely get it. It is painful to be the one who loves more, and painful to be the one who loves less.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“...it isn't a bad thing to remember that you have some wildness in you, that not every inch of your soul is honorable and responsible and presentable and tamped and tamed.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“It's probably true that you're forging your own character during every minute of every day, with every decision you make, but there are some moments in which this is more clear than in others.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“...a piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“Maybe a man can change. It helps when you've been injured, when you've been dislodged from the complacent routines of your life. Sometimes it takes an injury to make you see what you share with others.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“...life brings you everything at once. You can be in misery because of the misery of your daughter at the same time as you're exhilarated by a new romance, a romance that feels like the first act of a
new life.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“So much of human life is animal life: we respond to each other as animals.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening

“...an artist doesn't really need a great deal of experience. One heartbreak can produce many novels. But you have to have a heart that can break.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening

“Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.”
― Brian Morton

“To sit across the table and talk with someone you love is itself a complex engagement, with an exhaustingly subtle flow of information; to go to bed with someone--to carry your conversation into the realm of the body, a realm of insecurity and fear as well as pleasure--was always fraught with the sad evidence of how difficult it is to understand another person and make yourself understood.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening

“So you can keep going. You can stay young. There's no inevitable law of diminishment: everyone who fades fades for his own reason.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening

“The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together... Everything else passes away; that which you love remains.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening

“The thing is to let life assault you, make yourself as defenseless as you can. If it bruises you, don't protest. Love your fate.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening

“Subtlety and indirection are important tools, but you can't scale the highest peaks with these tools alone.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening

“What matters, finally, isn't finding the kind of person you think you should
love. What matters is finding someone you feel more alive with.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening

“It's foolish to speak of your happiness before you're sure you have it.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening

“A man can't understand how a woman feels--how she can offer up her entire life to him. The man thinks she's bringing him a burden. He doesn't understand that she's trying to give him a gift.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening

“...they hadlived, they'd lived intensely. But no matter how deeply you live, it comes to this in the end: one of you will be gone and the other will be in mourning.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening

“There are certain situations in which you can't convey what you mean. Words don't always work.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening