It is the purpose for which we exist. This reckless caring.
Habitante de librohas quoted3 years ago
There was more truth in fiction than in science.
Habitante de librohas quoted3 years ago
Without anguish and agony, there was no hope of winning.
Habitante de librohas quoted3 years ago
Hope, which had always seemed ennobling to her, now seemed as dehumanizing as feverish greed, as squalid as lust, just an animal hunger for more life at any cost.
Habitante de librohas quoted3 years ago
Bitterness can be as pleasing as sweetness when you learn that every experience, every sensation, is worthwhile."
Habitante de librohas quoted3 years ago
Lovers, if they were worthwhile, required more than simple commitment; they needed revelation, sharing, the bond of emotional intimacy.
Habitante de librohas quoted3 years ago
Risk is at the heart of an intense existence.
Habitante de librohas quoted3 years ago
The reef of the soul is built from varied experience, not from repetitive sensation.
Habitante de librohas quoted3 years ago
Power is living while others inevitably perish.
Habitante de librohas quoted3 years ago
Vess considers, not for the first time, that there is a similarity between the texture of melting chocolate and that of thickening blood.