I Can Quotes (page 690)

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• innocent
• masks
• drops

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off. Federico Fellini

• shadow
• good
• love

Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did. Neil Gaiman

• world
• him
• climbing

He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings. Mervyn Peake

• difficult
• evening
• trust

Yes, it's difficult to talk to your heart, and perhaps it isn't even necessary. We simply have to trust and follow the signs and live our Personal Legend; sooner or later, we will realize that we are all part of something, even if we can't understand rationally what that something is. Paulo Coelho

• happy times
• thinking
• smile

What an unsubstantial, happy, foolish time! Of all the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that in one retrospection I can smile at half so much, and think of half so tenderly. Charles Dickens

• learning
• fear
• words

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky. David Foster Wallace

• eating
• fruit
• manly

A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away. Algernon Charles Swinburne

• how
• thick
• getting

How thick can you get? J. K. Rowling

• life
• serious
• sentimental

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. Adrienne Rich

• life
• god
• walking

God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now. Oswald Chambers

• faith
• end
• evening

Still the king would have turned away, but Schmendrick touched his arm and leaned near. "It's true, you know," he whispered. "But for him--but for them all--the tale would have worked out quite another way, and who can say that the ending would have been even as happy as this? You must be their king, and you must rule them as kindly as you would a braver and more faithful folk. For they are your fate. Peter S. Beagle

• running
• hard
• very

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. Haruki Murakami

• feeling
• time
• about being beautiful

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful. Chuck Palahniuk

• happy
• thinking
• writing

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy. Georges Simenon

• him
• thinking
• hope

I don't think you need to worry about Jake too much. Anyone who can cuss with that kind of energy is going to recover."Jake was awake when you saw him?" I asked, spinning to look at him."Oh, yeah he was awake. You should have heard him-actually, it's better you didn't. I don't think there was anyone in La Push who couldn't hear him. I don't know where he picked up that vocabulary, but I hope he hasn't been using that kind of language around you. Stephenie Meyer