You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
But then I realised, what do they really know? This is MY idea, I thought. No one knows it like I do. And it’s okay if it’s different and weird, and maybe a little crazy.
‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’
People who love each other are always connected by a very special string made of love. Even though you can’t see it with your eyes, you can feel it with your heart and know that you are always connected to everyone you love.
‘He’s the strongest man in the world.’ ‘Man, yes,’ said Pippi, ‘But I am the strongest girl in the world, remember that.’
Remember, what is given from the heart reaches the heart.
Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
The same question arose in every soul: 'For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?'