Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get on a train, you pick up a lamp, you speak, you don’t. What decides why one thing gets picked to be the way it will be? Accident? Fate? Some weakness in ourselves? Forget your harps, your tin-foil angels–the only heaven worth having would be the heaven of answers. Mark Slouka
I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.
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Fannie Flagg
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
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Thomas Merton
But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.
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Mikhail Bulgakov
...some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.
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Suzanne Young
She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.
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Rick Riordan
More Quotes By Mark Slouka
The case for the humanities is not hard to make, though it can be difficult--to such an extent have we been marginalized, so long have we acceded to that marginalization--not to sound either defensive or naive. The humanities, done right, are the crucible in which...
I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.
...like a small stone deflected off a larger one, my brother had spun off toward the Almighty, though to my mind the events of that morning could just as well have cast him the other way.
The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you listen very hard.
I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.
