LibrarianCarina’s most recent Quotables

Forgiveness was not forthcoming simply because someone asked for it. The transgression was weighed into the equation, and there were transgressions that outweighed absolution.

If treacherous talk is constantly in your ears, and unwanted thoughts are constantly in your mind, you can turn these about and use them as whetstones to enhance your practice. If every word that came to your ears was agreeable, and all things in your mind were pleasant, then your whole life would be poisoned and wasted.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.

lovers alone wear sunlight

No man is born wise.

Through fantasy we repair, compensate, and transform.

In order to be one, you must first be two.

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

I regret that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.

Sometimes Carmen marveled at the sheer volume of thoughts cramming her head. Did other people think this much?

The seeds of intimacy are time and repetition.

We choose each other again and again, and so create a community of two.

If love is an act of imagination, then intimacy is an act of fruition.

Love is an exercise in selective perception.

"Did you have a happy childhood?" is a false question. As a child I did not know what happiness was, and whether I was happy or not. I was too busy being.