“Surrender to the treasures of books instead of entering into pointless relationships with men, who neglect you anyway, or going on crazy diets because you’re not thin enough for one man and not stupid enough for the next.”
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“replied, there is more. There is the unseen, waiting to be seen, existing only in the spaces we admit we do not see yet.”
― Pet
― Pet
“This is not a Western idea, but fathers and sons arrive at that relationship only by claiming that relationship: that is, by paying for it. If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. (But to pursue this further carries us far beyond the confines of the present discussion.)”
― The Devil Finds Work
― The Devil Finds Work
“I like this job. I can’t right now think of a better purpose in life than to be a teacher. To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that are yet to shape it. It isn’t playing the lute for Shakespeare, or the piano at Ciro’s, but it’s something as good. And goodness has its own kind of harmony.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“But in this notebook I would reconstruct the story I had begun, the story I kept beginning, until I had a story.”
― James
― James
“Hello, Dearest. I’m so glad it’s you!” I’ve come to believe that this is how God feels when I pray, even at my least attractive.”
― Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
― Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
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