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I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues.

I'm an Author, not a Grammarist!

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

Just because a relationship ends, does not mean it's not worth having.

In order to grow you have to let go of all that you are and all that you know.

I like to think of this little [newspaper] column as a brassière, or do I mean brasserie? Brazier, possibly. All three! A column that lifts, separates, supports, serves excellent cappuccino and crackles merrily with sweet-smelling old chestnuts.

No man has been able to do everything he wants without experiencing failures first.

She had collected experiences, I realized, as much as she had collected all these things. As we moved her out of her own life, she seemed lonelier that I hope I'll ever be.

To question what I see, then to question what I see after that, because the questions matter as much, perhaps more than, the answers.

Seeing her cry still made me feel the same way it did earlier.

Don't worry. Chivalry has practically no appeal for me whatsoever. -- Neville Fletcher

I’m a reporter,” Rachel said. “I write about the arts, festivals, new projects in the city. What I’m not is some kind of psychic astral traveler! How did I get here? Planning a trip to another dimension?

Busy days galore...thoughts in a kaleidoscope of dervish dances.

My goal is to read as much as possible books, my dream is to meet the snow person, the storm person and to make something together. I will be the rain, Snowy will be the snow, Stormy will be the storm - it's not so complicated as far I see.

We live this life, full of agony, despair,and pain. Living day by day, having no clue of what will happen, after a second, a minute, an hour, and a year.. Will we die of despair? Or will we find that person who completes our life and enlightens our hearts?

Human nature is seldom at a loss to find or create an excuse for pursuing the predominant bias of inclination.

Embrace everything you put your hearts on... for you will surly achieve it

You cannot afford to be too busy to pray.

Try not to attract stress in your life through procrastination

I waited for the fear to hit; waited for my body to shriek to find a way to get out of this dinner, but ... nothing. Maybe it'd be a mercy to be en

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.

Cos every breath is unbearably painful

Loneliness is that feeling to understand your own Self

Love' Two perfectly happy people ready to gamble

If brains could have orgasms, I'm pretty sure this was what it would feel like.

Life is a continuum; neither black nor white, but a series of shades from light to dark. When the shadow is in front of you, all you see is the darkness and forget the sun is at your back.

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.

The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself, all small children already have the old person in themselves, all infants already have death, all dying people the eternal life.

Adapt to your surrounding but remain flexible for growing.

I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.

But that's the thing, how you feel about the place that's home. About its sky, its air, its smell, the color of the light, the way the rain falls (or doesn't), whether it hot or cold.

...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...

Heaven is the natural spaciousness of our mind before we make it small with self-protection.

Always pray in good and bad times

I once knew a girl who was like a dying rainbow. Her colors were incomparable, her countenance a whirlwind of brilliance. As much as she shone, however, she faded into nothingness, at times so quickly that I was unsure whether she had existed at all.

Trust grows by trusting.

It is actually okay to stop trying to solve the problem of feeling bad. In fact it is wise because our habitual ways of solving problems almost invariably wind up making things worse.

I feel the same way. It doesn't make sense, and I can't understand it, but maybe emotions aren't supposed to make sense," I finally said.One the other line, Mickey blew out a deep breath."Tomorrow, then.""Tomorrow," I agreed.Just when I thought he'd hung up, I heard his voice again. "Victoria? Take care of yourself, until I'm with you to do it.

A man who has ceased to learn ought not to wander around loose in these dangerous times

Befriend simple thoughts for tangled ones may choke you

If there's no sea-gull there's no meeting, Wicklow had said. No sea-gull means abort. That's my epitaph, thought Barley. 'There was no sea-gull, so he aborted.

You cannot make this kind of decision," he said. "Go off with someone you barely know. You're seventeen.""And you're the guy who got drunk on eggnog last Christmas and danced to 'Turn The Beat Around' in Aunt Rachel's wig, so stop acting like you're in charge.""We agreed not to mention that ever again," Jason whispered furiously.

Writers cheat death by constructing an immortality vessel.

If not love, what?

Every day were reborn.

We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.

We should not look for more in others,Rather find more within ourselves

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Life was full of so many possibilities - why should you spend even one day of it being bored?

The path to wisdom is paved with humility.

Talent guided by genius can achieve anything

I said, “Je parle français.” Indira gave me a weird look. Or a look that said I was weird. Whichever. The point is, I don’t really speak French, but it’s a useful phrase for confusing people you don’t wish to speak with. However, it’s apparently more useful in Europe, where no one enjoys speaking to the French.

The next time someone pesters you with unneeded advice, gently remind him of the fate of the monk whom Ivan the Terrible put to death for delivering uninvited (and moralizing) advice. It works as a short-term cure.

I delight to come to my bearings,—not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the Builder of the universe, if I may,—not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator. I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attracts me;—not hang by the beam of the scale and try to weigh less,—not suppose a case, but take the case that is

Talk about insanity. Being attracted to deVries was like a month saying, "Hey, let's go check out that awesome bonfire".

by travelling to all the corners of the globe it allows me to further define the ever changing world we live in, which in turn helps me to redefine myself, therefore it is an important process towards becoming a complete person.

Not everything written on Kafka is Kafkology. How then to define Kafkology? By a tautology: Kafkology is discourse for Kafkologizing Kafka. For replacing Kafka with the Kafkologized Kafka.

Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

Happiness is a hot bath on a Sunday afternoon.

Often when we hear people speak about meditation, we hear about wisdom, we hear about knowledge. But what, actually, is the effect, what’s the use, of wisdom or knowledge? Understanding. When you understand mind, you’re not at its mercy. When you don’t understand, you’re lost in the midst of it.