After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.
And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.
But of course everything had conspired to spoil her entrance, which only went to prove what Janine already knew: that no matter how well you planned something, God always planned better. If He was feeling stingy that day and didn't want you to have some little thing you had your heart set on, then you weren't going to get it and that was all there was to it.
In this instance, she understood completely what the endorsement of a fool was worth.
Miles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it wasn't simply that from time to time they were unaccountably drawn to the grotesque.
Not giving a shit, she decided, is like the defrost option on a car's heater that miraculously unfogs the windshield, allowing you to see where you're headed.
She gave him a smile in which hope and knowledge were going at it, bare-knuckled, equally and eternally matched.
The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.
The sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you never, ever, get your fill.
What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories