Some Post-Sandy Thoughts

"Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on."


"Nothing educates your perspective like rummaging through the ruins of your home and finding your "Things I Gotta Do" list from yesterday."


"Sometimes when you start a task that seems impossible, you discover that the rest of it isn't."


~~Robert Brault

Lines From Unfinished Novels

"She lived alone, kept company by a dog that never barked and a phone that never rang."

"Though their love had waned, they stayed together, bound to their kids by blood and to each other by sweat and tears."


"Somehow the feelings they could not find words for had become words they could not find feelings for."


~~ Robert Brault

In A Far Corner...

"In a far corner of the universe there is a tiny planet orbiting a minor star.  Each time this planet completes an orbit, I count off a segment of my life.  Why do I do this?  I dunno, it passes the time."


"There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough."


~~ Robert Brault

Be Hopeful and Happy...

"Be hopeful and happy, and if it proves unwarranted, apologize to anyone you hurt by it."


"Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't let go of the thing that was supposed to."


"We complain so that we might be loved, then complain that we are not loved for who we are."


"Love is always a gift.  We are not asked to earn it.  We are asked to deserve it."


"What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions."


"Life, I've come to believe, is a distraction, but probably not from anything important."


"Time brings an end to everything.  We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time."


"The thing about letting ourselves be victimized is that it's so hard to blame the right person."


"To someone who says, "I'm sorry if you took offense," I say, "Come back when you're sorry you gave it."


"Sometimes when you start a task that seems impossible, you discover that the rest of it isn't."


~~ Robert Brault

Halloween Thoughts, Old and New

"There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater, looking for a brightly-lit front porch."


"I don't know if there are real ghosts and goblins, but I know that there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids."


"There's an after-Halloween glow that lasts until the next time you try to ward off a vampire with a bite-size Snickers bar."


"To remember yourself as a child at Halloween is to recall a little ghost dressed up as a kid dressed up as a little ghost."


"For every bodiless spirit you encounter, there is a spiritless body you really don't want to run across."


"There are moonlit nights when the dead send their ghosts to haunt us -- and dark misty nights when they come themselves."


"I don't know that there are haunted houses.  I know that there are dark staircases and haunted memories."


"All parties are masquerade parties.  Even an invitation to come as you are is an invitation to come in your usual disguise."


"There is a bond forged between two people who have hid together under the same bed."


"Nothing dispels the rattling of ghosts in the attic like the twittering of goblins on the front porch."


~~ Robert Brault

Still More Tweets

"Be happy, and a reason will come along."


"You know you have found love when you can't find your way back."


"The hardest thing to accept in a relationship is that a good thing can't always be a better thing."


"You get only one life, but you can't get through it as only one person."


"We are happy in life not because we have reason but because we have motive."


"It is not easy to accept who you are, because it requires that you adopt someone else's child."


"There is no sin so slight, no failing so trivial that love cannot magnify it by calling it betrayal."


"The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't."


"Always review a plan to make sure you have not assumed that anyone will use more brains than they have."


"What you discover in a crisis is that strangers are not only willing to help but they are the first to see that you need help."


"Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there."


Marriage vow: "And do you promise, if you haven't told each other your every secret, you won't start now?"


~~ Robert Brault