For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.
The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on
A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.
Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.
Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.
No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginning Of your wisdom-light.
There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.
Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?
I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.
We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us.
Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.
The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont
