walls

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
748f840	Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.	garden heart hidden-treasure love secret the-princess-bride walls william-goldman	William Goldman
b73e6ec	Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.	bigotry bridges compassion culture culture-wars cultures empathy hate hatred inspirational intolerance love men misattributed misattributed-to-isaac-newton racism separation sympathy tolerance understanding walls	Joseph Fort Newton
e4ea896	But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.	dam love trickle truth walls	Paulo Coelho
8799972	We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication--we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.	walls	Kay Redfield Jamison
2c4fabb	[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.	ender friendship game loss separation walls	Orson Scott Card
9731c42	Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.	oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit walls	Jeanette Winterson
9f5a02b	We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.	spirit walls	Tim O'Brien
b27b52b	So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.	only-me people walls worlds worry	Markus Zusak
be3454e	Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.	walls	Ursula K. Le Guin
9dd74b1	Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun? Everything is wrong here. Shattered. Broken. Like the light. Like me. I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one. I am surrounded by walls. I have just replaced one box for another.	broken claustrophobic images important light metal shattered sky sun unnatural walls wrong	Beth Revis

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

garden heart hidden-treasure love secret the-princess-bride walls william-goldman

William Goldman

b73e6ec

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

bigotry bridges compassion culture culture-wars cultures empathy hate hatred inspirational intolerance love men misattributed misattributed-to-isaac-newton racism separation sympathy tolerance understanding walls

Joseph Fort Newton

e4ea896

But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.

dam love trickle truth walls

Paulo Coelho

8799972

We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication--we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.

walls

Kay Redfield Jamison

2c4fabb

[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.

ender friendship game loss separation walls

Orson Scott Card

9731c42

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit walls

Jeanette Winterson

9f5a02b

We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.

spirit walls

Tim O'Brien

b27b52b

So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.

only-me people walls worlds worry

Markus Zusak

be3454e

Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.

walls

Ursula K. Le Guin

9dd74b1

Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun? Everything is wrong here. Shattered. Broken. Like the light. Like me. I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one. I am surrounded by walls. I have just replaced one box for another.

broken claustrophobic images important light metal shattered sky sun unnatural walls wrong

Beth Revis