Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.
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Related We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in t... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go ou... BRYCE COURTENAY What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. I... JOYCE CAROL OATES The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY This rain is not going to extinguish the flame of change that we've ignited here today. BOB DURGIN All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD You may kill a fire. And everything you know falls to dust and ash. Yet the remarkable treasure in t... AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from... LORRAINE TOUSSAINT Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would ... ROGER ZELAZNY The wind forgets. It will always forget as it never stays still long enough in one place for a memor... DANIEL KEMP There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indi... WANGARI MAATHAI They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy ... MARQUIS DE SADE The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... CHRISTINA ENGELA What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell ... CASSANDRA CLARE o each his Dulcinea, that he alone can name...to each a secret hiding place where he can find the ha... MITCH LEIGH Out of these piles, you would get flame lengths of 10 to 15 feet. When there's normal moisture, the ... TOM JOHNSTON Young people should ponder over problems that might confront them and be prepared to cope with them ... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes... NELSON MANDELA A flame that flickers and a mind that dithers has never given light to anyone. HAMEED PASHA Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. ... BETTY SMITH With right fashion, every female would be a flame. AMIT KALANTRI Never lie & deceive to someone who trust you & never trust to one who always lies to you. Truth, wis... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA So it's very difficult for them. But there are compelling reasons for them to come to the talks. The... CHRIS HILL You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes s... ALTON BROWN The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. He might get burned, but he's in the game. A... AIMEE MANN There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and the... ANNA KATHARINE GREEN There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never ... MELISSA ETHERIDGE I have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn beautiful and charm people in... RICK RIORDAN Someone carries my belief that raises hope in me, but flame didn’t last for long DURGESH SATPATHY A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Love is like a match to a wick. It takes that right combination to strike a flame. But once the flam... ANTHONY LICCIONE To the extent that she attempted to keep the Democrat flame burning in the Schwarzenegger administra... DARRY SRAGOW I asked them if they would bring their 2-month-old baby out in the wind or cold. It makes sense that... LEE SIMS A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark. DANTE ALIGHIERI A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark DANTE ALIGHIERI Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel. PIERRE CORNEILLE Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel. PIERRE CORNEILLE I would hope that most people would be aware that there is nothing protecting them from file based i... NEIL ARCHIBALD A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out. ANTHONY LICCIONE A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it. OLD SONG What if initially they had named you Faith and me Hope, but afterwards they forgot who of us had whi... IGOR ELISEEV The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in... JOHN BERGER You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other. RICHELLE MEAD My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hear... ANDREW YOUNG Desire is a beautiful flame KEVIN SPARKS It never really ends... Children surviving through the cold winds of neglect, and all kinds of ... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE ...in the distance across the dark fields I saw a flame. With the rainy season, the fireflies had lo... SHōHEI ŌOKA And so they easily suppose that this truce, owing to helplessness, is victory and that they have con... HELMUT THIELICKE Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with ... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER We'd hope those people would do that. That would be best for us as a company. If it doesn't work for... PAUL MOTT I look at him and my body reacts in a way that it never has before, even in the throes of passion. I... D.L. HESS Hope, what if initially they had named you Faith and me Hope, but afterwards they forgot who of us h... IGOR ELISEEV They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts ... GASTON LEROUX It's nice when grown people whisper to each other under the covers. Their ecstasy is more a leaf-sig... TONI MORRISON And they swore by Allah with the strongest of their oaths that if there came to them a warner they w... QURAN In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments w... ERIC MASKIN Isatai started chanting, drums pounding, the rhythm gathered and met the beat of their hearts, and t... JIM CHERRY But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they a... MARY BALOGH Even in times of today, when one does not feel the need to go out of one's way for someone else, the... ARTI HONRAO I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot... WILLIAM HAZLITT Certainly, my hope is that [the looting] wouldn't keep people from giving their time and their money... CAROL STEVENS Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet th... NICHOLAS SPARKS If you have a soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the... CASSANDRA CLARE If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shri... SUZY KASSEM Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it.... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We could tell they were male. They were big prints and we could see everywhere that they ran. I woul... WILLIAM SHANER My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope tha... RICK PERLSTEIN Warriors believed that a particular animal would represent the power in their heart. They would put ... DALE CARSON Many people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Game... LIU PENG When we got there, the building was well-involved in flame, so we went to defensive mode to protect ... MAURICE LUQUE They were worried that it might get stolen, so they kept it hidden in the bottom of the truck, ... W... SHIRLEY JACKSON Like a lit candle, may your love always continue to be a flame. LARISSA CONSOLAGIO If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shri... SUZY KASSEM He it is Who caused those who disbelieved of the followers of the Book to go forth from their homes ... QURAN The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD My primary assessment would be because American Christians tend to be incredibly self-indulgent, so ... ERWIN MCMANUS Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Fear freezes ones will to grow, the flame of truth is the only thing that will revive this frozen st... LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien... CRAIG GROESCHEL If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that ... ELIE WIESEL Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappoi... AMY CARMICHAEL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent f... ROBERT SCHUMANN Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they don't sin... ANTONY STARR I would say 90 percent of them have signed. The other ones either haven't made up their mind yet, an... DAVID MEAD This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ... OSHO Animals that go into (shelters) everywhere, if they have anything wrong with them, if they're not so... CARLOS ARREOLA Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while sh... MARIE RUTKOSKI
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HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I... HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things... HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin... HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. HARUKI MURAKAMI You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. HARUKI MURAKAMI When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh... HARUKI MURAKAMI George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don... HARUKI MURAKAMI You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. HARUKI MURAKAMI These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi... HARUKI MURAKAMI From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. HARUKI MURAKAMI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was... HARUKI MURAKAMI The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anyth... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. HARUKI MURAKAMI The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. HARUKI MURAKAMI Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the... HARUKI MURAKAMI A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose ... HARUKI MURAKAMI They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were n... HARUKI MURAKAMI Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off. HARUKI MURAKAMI But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night... HARUKI MURAKAMI I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee... HARUKI MURAKAMI Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. HARUKI MURAKAMI Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all. W... HARUKI MURAKAMI We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died... HARUKI MURAKAMI It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical HARUKI MURAKAMI I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. HARUKI MURAKAMI The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear... HARUKI MURAKAMI People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. HARUKI MURAKAMI Wherever there's hope there's a trial. HARUKI MURAKAMI The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, or... HARUKI MURAKAMI He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive,... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are ... HARUKI MURAKAMI