35 Quotes by A.S.A. Harrison

People live their lives, express themselves, and pursue fulfillment in their own ways and in their own time. They are going to make mistakes, exercise poor judgment and bad timing, take wrong turns, develop hurtful habits, and go off on tangents.

At times he swears that he’s going to go straight, but mostly he feels like a drowning man in love with the surf.

She likes things orderly and predictable and feels secure when her time is mapped out well in advance.

She’s aware of her fondness for ledger keeping, a term that marriage counselors use to castigate their clients for keeping a running tally of who did what to whom, which is not in the spirit of generosity that supposedly nurtures a healthy relationship.

You make your choices when you’re far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows.

Places where life once flowed, having lost their blood supply, became dead spots in her psychic tissue, succumbed to a form of necrosis that also invaded the thing that was neither her nor him but the ground between them, the relationship itself.

What he understands is that life has suffering in it, can’t not have suffering in it, because in life there is everything.

Autumn can be glorious but menacing too – the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.