Never doubt love ... Never question it when it comes onstage, but be happy for its entrance. And do not weep when it makes its exit, for it leaves behind it the sweet aroma of caring, a fragrance to linger the rest of your life.
People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God. - Helen Van Slyke
People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.
- Helen Van Slyke
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriage… - Helen Van Slyke
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriage…
Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes. - Helen Van Slyke
Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes.
Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter. - Helen Van Slyke
Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.
I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their happiness a… - Helen Van Slyke
I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their happiness a…
[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they understand when we seem less th… - Helen Van Slyke
[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they understand when we seem less th…
Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth. - Helen Van Slyke
Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.
It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and shelt… - Helen Van Slyke
It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and shelt…
Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic w… - Helen Van Slyke
Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic w…
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