You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.