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Some people awoke to escape their nightmares. I awoke into one.
Well, nobody can say that this siege is boring.
For a time you can be alone and doing fine and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived...
I dipped my head so I could look into his eyes. The monster at my table looked ready to cry. I'd managed to make a teenager depressed. Maybe I could shoot some fish in a barrel for an encore.
"Do you remember when we went to the Black Sea and you pretended to be infatuated with Lorelei?" "Not that again." His face shut down. "I'm going to do something very dangerous and stupid. I've done...
Also, your father.
Do you know the runes on your sword are nonsense?
Did I ever tell you that you are like sunshine in the middle of the night?
It was his eyes. When you looked into them, you saw chained violence baring teeth and claws back at you.
If there is anything I can do, I'll help. Don't get excited. It's not because of you. For the child. If it wasn't for her and the flare, I'd throw your dumb ass out of this window. "What does the...
Did you think I was sitting on my hands? I thought you might be injured. We've met, you and I? I'm making room for your ego.
I want you to understand me. This isn't vengeance. This is punishment.
I can make some calls. There is a guy. Dagfinn Heyerdahl. He used to be with Norse Heritage Foundation. The Norse Heritage Foundation wasn't so much about heritage as it was about vikings, in the most...
In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone forever.
For me, reading was adventure, but most of all, reading was escape -
Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
So then, why not give the workers spoons instead of shovels?
It's a short reminder that success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we are willing to take.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. - HEINRICH HEINE
No newspapers, magazines, audiobooks, or nonmusic radio. Music is permitted at all times. No news websites whatsoever {cnn.com, drudgereport.com, msn.com,10 etc.}. No television at all, except for one...
Most good chefs believe there is no such thing as too much garlic.
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. - DAVE BARRY, Pulitzer...
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. - Socrates
When I wake up in the morning, I'm thinking to myself: What can I do to be ready for that moment, which is coming? That propels me out of bed.
It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter - nothing can justify that sacrifice.
America's food system is broken.
My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it.
On page 145, I defined belonging as the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. One of the biggest surprises in this research was learning that fitting in and belonging are not the...
... O God, here, as so often, I cannot help. Let me not forget she is your child and your concern makes mine as nothing.
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...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...