If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu {and all songs say it}. If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but...

There is a black-and-white picture in my hallway, of me, Nancy, and Lizzie in the bath, when Nancy was eight months old and Lizzie two-and-a-half. I am gently biting Lizzie. Nancy, in turn, is gumming...

Schoolchildren don't normally learn this poem about Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola {Haiti and the Dominican Republic today}: "In fourteen hundred and ninety - five, sixteen hundred people he...

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

"I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know my son... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life."

Put in your pipe, and smoke it

The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made of them day after day, hour after hour.

Relationships and marriages are hard enough, but you add war into the mix and small fissures become gaping wounds. No one sees what you're seeing - again that clear-eyed, unbiased thing - except your...

As a soldier, you don't stand at attention because it looks nice. You stand at attention because, on some level, it either gives you strength or, just as important, makes you appear stronger to both...

Most people I’ve spoken to have no idea that they are capable of controlling every single thought that comes into their minds: every second, every minute, and every day. They are convinced that...

But the real key to remember is that happiness is a journey, not a destination.

Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others, but rather strive to be superior to their own selves.

Starting today, learn more, laugh more and do what you truly love to do.

vigorous walking in natural surroundings

his legs where the bones had been broken

The world has loosened, like a woman preparing for bed who lets her hair flow free. And I am whispering the words, knowing that words matter, and smiling as I say them to the shadows of the gods of...

you are right where you should be / now act like it

"The truth is," Nadine purred into my ear, "since the moment we met, all I've been thinking about is you, me, and my favorite pair of scissors. I think I'd start by gelding you, like the vile animal...

Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: 1 He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. 2 He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. 3 He...

I think I couldn't love him at all if he was the sort of man to make me choose between him and my writing. And

Jesus, who did not sin, also felt pain.

Sociologists have a theory of the looking - glass self. You become what the most important person in your life {wife, father, boss, etc.} thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed...

you liked him so much you just hated to let him down. He was, and is, all but worshiped by the men of E Company.

After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.

"Yes, I'm sorry you won't be coming with us," Chloe said to Alex. "But please don't worry. I'm certain The Lord has another plan for you." She glanced at me. "For both of you." "Oh, I can assure you,"...

"He is the dark prince. The all-powerful one. The leader of the creatures of the night." Then Meena said, "I'm confused then. I thought the prince of darkness was the devil." ... "Wait," Meena said,...

I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys.

At night Tyrion would oft hear her praying. A waste of words. If there are gods to listen, they are monstrous gods who torment us for their sport. Who else would make a world like this, so full of...

"Do you mean to spend your whole life running away?" Tyrion asked before she could slip back out the door. That stopped her. Her cheeks turned a bright pink, and he was afraid she was about to start...

She would be no one if that was what it took. No one had no holes inside her.