“As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.”
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“With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.”
“I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.”
“A man with an excruciatingly painful condition wrote me and told me that his doctor said that the only cure for what he has is death, and he might want to consider suicide. What do you say to him? I doubt the, "Hey let's go get some coffee and talk" thing is going to be at all helpful.”
“I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.”
“I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.”
“I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.”
“A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.”
“I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.”
“I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.”
“Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.”
“People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.”
“the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion”
“These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.”
“Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.”
“My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.”
“Actually,” I said, hesitant to bring it up, “I was thinking along the lines of a curse that can turn you human.” “Or witch?” Ivy said, surprising me. There was a soft vulnerability in her and I blinked. “You don’t want to be a witch,” I said quickly. “Why not? You are.”
“And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, I’d found out long ago that I couldn’t stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable.”
“He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart.”
“Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet”