I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.
Without you, there'd be no sun in my sky, there would be no love in my life, there'd be no world left of me.
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.
But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.
He's like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.
The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.
Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.
