Otherness Quotes (page 328)

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• children
• country
• people

In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment. David Sedaris

• yours
• binding
• finds

There are no rules that can bind you when you find your other half. Stephenie Meyer

• manly
• reality
• new year

Why it didn't occur to any of us that a well-known suicide spot would be like Piccadilly Circus on New Year's Eve. I have no idea, but at that point in the proceedings I had accepted the reality of our situation: we were in the process of turning a solemn and private moment into a farce with a cast of thousands. And at that precise moment of acceptance, we three became four. There was a polite cough, and when we turned round to look, we saw a tall, good-looking, long-haired man, maybe ten... Nick Hornby

• couple
• sweat
• feeling

A few other couples joined us on the dance floor and we lost ourselves among them. I'd never been able to figure out exactly what was involved in slow dancing, so I contented myself, as I had since high school, with gripping my partner to me, letting out awkward breaths against her ear, and tipping from foot to foot like someone waiting for a bus. I could feel the sweat cooling on her forearms and smell a trace of apples in her hair. Michael Chabon

• feeling
• little
• people

A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. George Eliot

• die
• world
• doing

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike

• him
• believe
• surprise

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him. Charles de Gaulle

• simple
• busy
• business

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money. Alexander Dumas

• change
• slow
• observance

The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• eyes
• people
• universe

It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears. Douglas Adams

• rain
• feeling
• people

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. Bob Marley

• good
• resentment
• goods

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot. Amartya Sen

• kids
• people
• church

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church. Terry Prachett

• regret
• humanity
• wishes

The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret one's impulsiveness, one's misjudgment of others? The inevitable discovery that someone is selling letters you'd written in trust is simply to discover an obvious human truth: there are those who don't cherish us as we'd cherished them, and had wished to be cherished by them. Joyce Carol Oates

• love
• broken
• soul

Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche) Edith Hamilton