Cheanuh Quotes & Sayings

A man does not marry a girl, nor a woman. He marries a promise, and it shines with a bright purity that is ageless. It shines, in other words, with the glory of lies. The deception is self inflicted. The promise was simple in its form, as befitted the thick-headedness of young men, and in its essence it offered the delusion that the present moment was eternal; that nothing would change; not the fires of desire, not the flesh itself, not the intense look in the eye. — Steven Erikson

Style requires digesting who we are. — Natalie Goldberg

Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum — Thomas A Kempis

If, on the other hand, we read books entitled On Impulse not just out of idle curiosity, but in order to exercise impulse correctly; books entitled On Desire and On Aversion so as not to fail to get what we desire or fall victim to what we would rather avoid; and books entitled On Moral Obligation in order to honour our relationships and never do anything that clashes or conflicts with this principle; then we wouldn't get frustrated and grow impatient with our reading.
Instead we would be satisfied to act accordingly. And rather than reckon, as we are used to doing, 'How many lines I read, or wrote, today,' we would pass in review how 'I applied impulse today the way the philosophers recommend — Epictetus

He remembers what I forget and I remember what he forgets. It's too late for either of us to make another old friend. — Abigail Thomas

I got to go! Bye!" "You're ammmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaazing - " Click. This time when she put her cell phone back down, she felt as light and frothy as the bubbles in a champagne flute. And a little drunk, too. — J.R. Ward

The cup was emptied and would never be filled again. — Hermann Hesse