Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.