The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a tie at a tag sale, some perfect thing in a crate of nothing, you were just there, uninvited, and now suddenly the party was over and you were all I wanted. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.
Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.
It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you found out you hardly know them at all.
Even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings with something small.
Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.
What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.
Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they'd had to share their rooms with others.
Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.
The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .
Some things come with their own punishments. Like bedrooms with built-in cupboards. They would all learn more about punishments soon. That they came in different sizes. That some were so big they were like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. You could spend your whole life in them, wandering through dark shelving.
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
Screw the Silent Brothers.' 'No thanks. There's strong and silent, and then there's just freaky.' 'Isabelle!
Were you hugging Clary?' He looked at Sebastian in amazement. Sebastian shrugged. 'She's my sister. I'm pleased to see her.' 'You don't hug people,' Jace said. 'I ran out of time to bake a casserole.
You know what it's like when you're trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?
There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.
Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.
