Buts Quotes (page 40)

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• achievement
• philosophical
• heart

[…] but I remember I preferred the soldier to the philosopher at the time; a preference which life has only confirmed. One was a man, and the other was either more – or less. However, they are both dead, and Mrs Beard is dead, and youth, strength, genius, thoughts, achievements, simple hearts – all dies… No matter. Joseph Conrad

• inspirational
• eyes
• sees

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open. Norton Juster

• velocity
• rocket
• descent

But of course we don't notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity. Dean Koontz

• silence
• spokes
• spoke

But the silence spoke volumes. Haruki Murakami

• happy
• good
• she

But we're so different, you know: she likes being good and I like being happy. Edith Wharton

• forgiveness
• type
• honest

But to be honest, I’m not the forgiving type Suzanne Collins

• die
• bear
• forward

But what's all this about not being able to die, live, be born? That must have some bearing. All this about staying where you are, dying, living, being born, unable to go forwards or back, not knowing where you came from, or where you are, or where you're going, or that it's possible to be elsewhere, to be otherwise? Supposing nothing, asking yourself nothing? You can't, you're there. Samuel Beckett

• thoughts
• free
• end

But this is the rule, and there is no way to free oneself of it: as soon as the thought has arisen, it must be followed to the very end. Maurice Blanchot

• night
• heart
• dream

But my heart is agitated, It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it's become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I'm thinking about her Paulo Coelho

• sad
• uplifting
• star

But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust Edgar Allan Poe

• best
• god
• concluding

But, God knows best, I concluded. Anne Bronte

• reading
• philosophy
• caring

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes. George R. R. Martin

• life
• surprise
• surprised

But life is wakings-up, all unexpected, all surprising. John Crowley

• personality
• love
• personal

But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things. Jonathan Franzen

• relationship
• friend
• friends

But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else. Helen Fielding