Always Quotes (page 128)

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• believe
• thoughts
• believing

I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought). Jean Rhys

• touching
• question
• dark

The book answers questions other people have thought of. I have thought of questions they have not answered. I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance. Maybe my questions matter. Elizabeth Moon

• love
• dead
• appearance

This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you. Orson Scott Card

• attention
• husband
• purpose

Lady Brightlingsea considered it her duty to fish out of this out darkness, and drag for a moment into the light, any person or obligation entitled to fix her husband's attention; but they always faded back into night as soon as they had served their purpose. Edith Wharton

• happy
• mistake
• wellness

And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign? the divine minus. Yevgeny Zamyatin

• past
• today
• door

The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today. Neil Gaiman

• summer
• winter
• come

A long summer always meant a long winter to come. George R. R. Martin

• help
• life
• guilty

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty. Herman Hesse

• thinking
• forgetful
• think

I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it. Stephen King

• death
• end
• never

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end. Jean-Paul Sartre

• mirror
• reflection
• hair

If Dracula can't see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed? Steven Wright

• happy
• wishes
• to live

She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live. Daphne du Maurier

• peace
• wisdom
• world

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath. Dave Barry

• sad
• light
• best

Never an illness, nor the absenceof grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted with: beautiful is the flower of man, his conduct, and every door opens on the beautiful truthand never hides treacherous whispers. I always gained something from making myself better, better than I am, better than I was, that most subtle citation: to recover some lost petalof the sadness I inherited: to search once more for the light that singsinside of me, the... Pablo Neruda

• best
• may
• choose

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. Pythagoras