She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new flavor of ice cream, or dropping a letter in a mailbox. It...
Life had shown him that logic and step-by-step planning hardly controlled events.
I am a man I count nothing human foreign to me.
But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.
I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked body, your skin, your mouth, your hands... -I want you like an animal... or a whore.
Zip Your Lip & Bite Your TongueThe discreet communicator knows when it's time to speak and when it's time to listen. He conscientiously refrains from opening a topic of discussion if it is bad timing...
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade...
There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?
Bread and Circuses
It is not about whether you have free will, rather it is about whether you have enough experience to make the best possible wilful decision in the current moment of life.
We obviously both have our pasts, but that's not important right now. I don't have to know every bad thing you ever did in your life to know that you're a good guy now. People change, grow up, get...
Just remember, no matter how much they love you, they'll never love you as much as I do. I had to catch the tears before they could fall, refusing to make him feel bad about the choice he had to make...
The USPS is the only place in the world where you will find a black guy, a white guy, and a hispanic guy playing Filipino poker! And we love it that way!
When you move they can't get you 'A'
Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.
The Acceptance of who you are is in the embrace of who you will become.
Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and...
We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.
Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.
Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Wait -- let me back in!... Let me in! Let me in! Let me in! Wait -- let me back out!
But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?
I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.
I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it's hard being a bride. That is all well and good. But it does not, ever, entitle you to be rude, selfish, uncaring, and generally obnoxious...
Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.
Where did love begin? What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and weary, dragging home food, arms cut and scarred, that you saw...
Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did... You stay in, we'll laugh and drink fruit liqueur and we'll drive away your depression in a flash. I'll sing...
Cops and Robbers in 1965 England was still a kind of Ealing comedy: crimes rarely involved firearms. The denizens of F - wing were losers in a game they had been playing against the cops. In queues...
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
All she remembered was that Caligula had planned to torture his wife to find out why he was so devoted to her. What was David's excuse, she wondered.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
