Two Quotes (page 198)

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• death
• moments
• fabric

The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric. Isabel Allende

• things
• only
• thing

The only thing that beats One is two, and three, and four. James Patterson

• simplicity
• saying

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. Henry David Thoreau

• mind
• mindfulness
• done

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. Seamus Heaney

• sea
• saying
• one word

Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?"Absently he replied, "I was, once."And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?"... Unconsciously, he clenched his fist over his ring. "I live."Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more -- with one word you will make me weep. Stephen R. Donaldson

• wall
• space
• balance

And suddenly, it's as if there's no one in the world but these two, crashing through space to reach each other. They collide, enfold, lose their balance, and slam against a wall, where they stay. Clinging into one being. Indivisible. Suzanne Collins

• life
• music
• cat

There are two refuges from the miseries of life: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer

• sorry
• kids
• bad

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you. Barbara Kingsolver

• look
• looked
• trying

Look out for number one and try not to step in number two. Rodney Dangerfield

• wisdom
• end
• together

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom. J. R. R. Tolkien

• hand
• success
• work

There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day. Og Mandino

• greatness
• manly
• great

[He]Spoke and rose to full height, sword in air, Then cleft the man's brow square between the temples. Cutting his head in two -- a dreadful gash. Between the cheeks all beardless. Earth resounded. Quivering at the great shock of his weight. As he went tumbling down in all his armor, Drenched with blood and brains; in equal halves. His head hung this and that way from his shoulders. Virgil

• walking
• giving
• dating

Of course, they didn't give names or dates, they spoke in what might be called abstract terms, but despite the seemingly detached presentation of their misfortunes, the conversation and the walk only sank deeper into a state of melancholy, to such a degree that after two hours they both felt as if they were suffocating. Roberto Bolano

• die
• time love
• different

[Pierre] involuntarily started comparing these two men, so different and at the same time so similar, because of the love he had for both of them, and because both had lived and both had died. Leo Tolstoy

• happy place
• sad
• together

I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly with sadness that there was no place I could stomach the thought of entering. I hated it here. And I have never been as happy as when I was here. And these two things together confront me with the beak and claws of the True. David Foster Wallace