Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love and maybe more, because there were not yet words for it, and because it was not yet fixed to comparisons or chronologies or the ways by which adults measure such things...I just loved her. Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones -- that kind of love.


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Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.
PATRICK O'BRIAN
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silenc...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes ...
JENNY O'CONNELL
Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - t...
SEáN O'CASEY
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Chris...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You...
STEWART O'NAN
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
SEáN O'CASEY
Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued...
MICHELLE O'LEARY
She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her th...
MICHELLE O'LEARY
I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.
DANIEL O'MALLEY
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest.
LOUISE O'NEILL
I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance ...
PETER O'TOOLE
Happiness arises from getting what you want, and this comes and goes. Joy arises from being with wha...
MARY O'MALLEY
It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice but the things you say. It's not th...
IAN O'SHEA
You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. Y...
STEWART O'NAN
They should."

"Should be like a wood bee," she said.

It was a private joke, a ...
STEWART O'NAN
The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?
STEWART O'NAN
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a const...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween cand...
HEATHER O'NEILL
Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
P.J. O'ROURKE
Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your...
PEGGY O'MARA
Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultima...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and t...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed w...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
[I suspect] that in the drive toward the liberal universalist notion of human rights that characteri...
DARREN O'DONNELL
All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and hon...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you
VINCENT O'SULLIVAN
We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the sa...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him ...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and w...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
SEáN O'CASEY
You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, th...
JENNIFER O'NEILL
For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, a...
ROSIE O'DONNELL
It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or ...
EUGENE O'NEILL
It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of sh...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your ...
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