There is always a reason. When I look back on things that really upset me at the moment, I can always see why it happened in retrospect.
"I'm going to show you I haven't given you permission because clearly you're not grown up enough to understand that, not having given you permission, you can't just come look in my house." And I won't know if they're coming and looking or not... so I put a piece of tape over it.
Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.
I look around for the counter that sells my scent, but I'm so petrified that if I spray it in the air, nothing will come out. And then Mia's scent seems to fade away and everything else fades away with it and I know that all I have to do to recapture it is press the spray button again.
We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.
What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others. "It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say. "Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through." That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.
I used to tell your mother she looked like Sophia Lauren." He looks at me, frowning, and then it registers. "Oh God, some guy's using that line on you, isn't he?" "Not just 'some guy'." I tell him. "The guy.
You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I'm supposed to.
Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days.
I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It’s a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.
Who do you hang out with?" Natalia asks, looking over my shoulder. She's always done that. Wherever you are, whoever you are, she'll always look over your shoulder to see if there's someone more exciting to speak to. It used to make me feel paranoid.
Most people are telling me I look horrible.
If you turn the pages and look inside, there is nothing of me I feel that I have to hide.
If you're making a cake, you don't just make the cake and have it look nice and have nobody tastes it. But that doesn't take away from your ability to execute what you do as well as you can and to have it be something for many.
The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful. There's no such thing as a PowerBar tree.
If something looks difficult, it is more fantastic to do it! Stay away from the easy things!
You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!
Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired itself? Remember that anybody can be an admirer; but the difficult thing is to be the admired one!
When you look at the sky, you must know that you look at the cosmic factory which enabled you to exist as a live being!
When the future looks dark, do not panic, because future does not exist yet; by using your intelligence, you can always turn it to bright!
If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!
Is it possible that a tragedy can look so beautiful? The death of the leaves is the answer for this question!
When the way looks infinitely long, if you are sure that it is the right way, ignore the distance and start walking!
When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!
Time is so fast that all times are past times! When you look at a photo of the past, you must know that you are already in the album, someone else is looking at your photo! All times are past times!