But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan;The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things.Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme,Empty darkness under the death-tent wings.She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood,Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.

Robinson Jeffers

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Ambrose Bierce

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

Dan Rather

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Abigail Adams

The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Henry Miller

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.

Jeremy Sisto

Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

Dilys Laing

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Chuck Palahniuk

Conscience is the root of all true courage if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James Freeman Clarke

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Uma Thurman