If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.

Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.

If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.

So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.

Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.