Tag: life

They’re animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?...

The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley....

if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances....

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.–Shin’a’in saying...

In a dog’s life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and...

Life is a journey, Frannie darling,” Feagan had once told me. “Choose well those with whom you travel.”As always, I’ve followed Feagan’s counsel....

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them....

If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That’s what people meant when they talked about going...

I’m a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me....

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis....