I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.


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JOHN O'DONOHUE
The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.
JOHN O'DONOHUE
If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortio...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship i...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you....
JOHN O'DONOHUE
No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entr...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it w...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthful...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.
JOHN O'DONOHUE
You are like nobody since I love you"
-Pablo Neruda

This art of love discloses the ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuri...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to sti...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautifu...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.
JOHN O'DONOHUE
you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care...
TIM O'BRIEN
It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and dange...
TIM O'BRIEN
...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe...
TIM O'BRIEN
But this too is true: stories can save us.
TIM O'BRIEN
They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of th...
TIM O'BRIEN
The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.
NUALA O'FAOLAIN
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrib...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
I’d begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across...
MARK O'CONNELL
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore...
EDNA O'BRIEN
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to t...
P.J. O'ROURKE
And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often...
PATRICK O'BRIAN
Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
I write to discover what I know.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
My body is not my own any more. They have stamped their names all over it.
LOUISE O'NEILL
The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from t...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mu...
KERRIE O'CONNOR
Having a Coke with You

is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biar...
FRANK O'HARA
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay....
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It wou...
STEWART O'NAN
I would not hurt you, little man,' he said.

'I think that I got the disorder in Mullingar...
FLANN O'BRIEN
Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is wi...
ROSIE O'DONNELL
Grace changes us and change is painful".
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an arti...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at...
EUGENE O'NEILL
I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.
FRANK O'HARA
Stand up, be counted. We have the numbers.
BILL O'REILLY
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobo...
ERICA O'ROURKE