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Category: Erich Segal

Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry.

Sorry, You, Say

True love comes quietly without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells get your ears checked.

There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.

What the hell makes you smart?” I asked.”I wouldn’t go for coffee with you.””Listen – I wouldn’t ask you.””That,” she replied, “is what makes you stupid.

clever, coffee, witty

The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think things out before they act.But maybe they never heard what Dr. London told me one, Freud said that for the little things in life we should react according to our reason. But for really big decisions, we should heed what our unconscious tells us.

inspirational, logic, solving-problems

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

genius, madness

I wanted to keep looking at her because I wanted to never take my eyes from her, but still I had tolower my eyes, I was so ashamed that even now Jenny was reading my mind so perfectly.’Listen, that’s the only goddamn thing I’m asking, Ollie. Otherwise, I know you’ll be okay.’ That thing in my gut was stirring again, so I was afraid to even speak the word ‘okay.’ I justlooked mutely at Jenny.

death-and-dying, sadness

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

eulogy, first-lines, loss, opening-lines

He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment.”Which one is that?” I asked her.”Do not bullshit thy father,” she said.

eleventh-commandment, humour

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

death, tears, tragedy

The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.