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Whatever you say, say nothing.
We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.
Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.
There is always room for at least two truths.
Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.
The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
Good days, they come around the oddest corners.
Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.
There are no days more full than those we go back to.
He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.
It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
Even if you're going to die, you might as well die pretty.
The best writers attempt to become alternative historians.
The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.
What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.
The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.
The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
Life must pass through difficulty in order to achieve any modicum of beauty.
You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.
I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.
How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.
Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully.
You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven.
He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.
Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.
This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.
I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.
It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.