"He took her in his arms right away. "I'm so sorry," he murmured in her ear. He rocked her, saying it over and over. But no matter how many times he said it, no matter how much she knew he meant it, the words stirred around in her ear but didn't get into her brain. Sometimes he could comfort her. Sometimes he said what she needed, but today he couldn't reach her. Nothing could."

-- Ann Brashares

#Sorry Quotes #Brain Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.”
“If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.”
“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
“I never felt I left the stage.”
“When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?”
“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.”
“You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.”
“That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.”

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