“I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Time is not money, but a sacred free gift. Priceless.”
Source: San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
“Hermes's eyes twinkled. "Martha, may I have the first package, please?"
Martha opened her mouth ... and kept opening it until it was as wide as my arm. She belched out a stainless steel canister-an old-fashioned lunch box thermos with a black plastic top. The sides of the thermos were enameled with red and yellow Ancient Greek scenes-a hero killing a lion; a hero lifting up Cerberus, the three-headed dog.
"That's Hercules," I said. "But how-"
"Never question a gift," Hermes chided. "This is a collector's item from Hercules Busts Heads. The first season."
"Hercules Busts Heads?"
"Great show." Hermes sighed. "Back before Hephaestus-TV was all reality programming. Of course, the thermos would be worth much more if I had the whole lunch box-”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“Link says if a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it’s jewelry.”
Source: Beautiful Creatures
“[On Chopin's Preludes:]
"His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds. His composition of that night was surely filled with raindrops, resounding clearly on the tiles of the Charterhouse, but it had been transformed in his imagination and in his song into tears falling upon his heart from the sky. ... The gift of Chopin is [the expression of] the deepest and fullest feelings and emotions that have ever existed. He made a single instrument speak a language of infinity. He could often sum up, in ten lines that a child could play, poems of a boundless exaltation, dramas of unequalled power.”
Source: Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand
“Linsey pulled away, smiling in a way that would have made him look almost
angelic if it wasn’t for the blood smeared around his mouth. When he licked his lips clean, the angelic image became clearer. Blood welled up from two small cuts on his bottom lip, pooling in the full sweep his skin. I knew it wasn’t just my blood that I’d tasted.”
Source: Bloodcharm
“Love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“Taken together, it’s almost a sure sign. The letters float off the page when you read, right? That’s because your mind is hardwired for ancient Greek. And the ADHD-you’re impulsive, can’t sit still in the classroom. That’s your battlefield reflexes. In a real fight, they’d keep you alive. As for the attention problems, that’s because you see too much, Percy, not too little. Your senses are better than a regular mortal’s.”
Source: The lightning thief
“If love is the greatest gift of all-and I believe it is- then the greatest privilege of all is to be able to love someone.”
Source: An Invisible Thread
“Above all, consider this: The greatest gift we can give ourselves, our children, and our world is to live well and love well.”
Source: Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction