Pretty Reckless Heaven Knows Quotes & Sayings

There are two of you now. Neither is sufficient unto itself, but you learn, over time, to join your two halves together, and hobble around. There are limits to what you can do, though you're able to get from place to place. Each half, naturally enough, requires the cooperation of the other, and you find yourself getting snappish with yourself; you find yourself cursing yourself for your clumsiness, your overeagerness, your lack of consideration for your other half. You feel it doubly. Still, you go on. Still, you step in tandem, make your slow and careful way up and down the stairs, admonishing, warning, each of you urging the other to slow down, or speed up, or wait a second. What else can you do? Each would be helpless without the other. Each would be stranded, laid flat, abandoned, bereft. — Michael Cunningham

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man. — Mario Puzo

I was still in high school when I decided I didn't want children. My somewhat twisted rationale was that I would never inflict childhood on anybody, especially not someone I loved. I never changed my mind. — Ann Patchett

Wisdom requires a flexible mind. — Dan Carlin

All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back. — Tim O'Brien

I wonder through the days like a whore in a world with no sidewalks. — Emil Cioran

It's good to see you," Said Haru.
"You can see me?" asked Marcus, patting himself in sudden shock."The potion must have worn off! That's the last time I give my lunch to a talking squirrel".
P12 — Dan Wells