Long live Colombia! We have just killed Pablo Escobar!

Explore the rugged edge of thought. Like grating a carrot, give the paper the colorful coleslaw of your consciousness.

Go ahead; take Kant's PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSIC and get it to show what he is telling. We would all be a lot happier.

"Happy?" He stared her down. "You can't expect happiness. If it comes along - consider yourself lucky, but that's not what life's about."

You're twelve years old. One horrible day your best friend's family moves to another town. You speak to your friend on the telephone now and then, but telephone conversations just aren't the same as...

I wanted to learn more of love - that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.

I want you to appreciate what you're up against. You will have to succeed where multitudes have failed. You'll have to accomplish something that the mightiest wizard in the history of Lyrian didn't...

After a great loss, after a difficult victory, after suffering extreme trauma, she wished she could have some time to hibernate. Not two days. Two years. Some serious time to pull herself together....

Rollan didn't like when his horse had to walk near a drop-off, as they were now. He was allergic to the whole falling thing.

Brandon's greatest regret is that he has but one life to give for Gondor.

Considering the circumstances, Rollan figured being alive was the same thing as being okay.

...watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they would have made of their lives if they had been women. Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.

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...

Luckily Sumac has extra Rakhi in her pocket and hands them out to anyone who wants one, because really, who cares so long as the threads get tied.

All I think when I look at you is hallelujah

And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations?

And so it was not even patriotism but a new faith. The Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land.

In the dark of the trees he could smell splintered wood and see white upturned faces like wide white dirty flowers.

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...

I have a rule of thumb that allows me to judge - when time is pressing and one needs to make a snap judgment - whether some sexist bullshit is afoot. Obviously it is not 100 percent infallible but, by...

Like books before them, each of these songs, I know, could in the end prove to be the thing I need: a way out. A place to go.

Abortions are never seen as a positive thing, as any other operation to remedy a potentially life - ruining condition would.

David Cameron is a C - 3P0 made of ham.

Yeah. They wake up a couple of times in the night, but, you know, that is the ineffable nature of the young! I said. This woman was bound to be impressed by what an engaged big sister I was. Also, my...

I'm crying, and I am crying at the door. Honestly, the house is too crowded for crying. I've already tried inside—the person is explaining, amid sobs, why they're crying to someone, and then halfway...

I never knew until now what it feels like to be truly lonely when you're with someone in bed.

The working class do things differently. I can hear it. I can see we are not wrong. We are not just poor people who have not yet evolved into something else - i.e., people with money. We are something...

Why can't we just loosen our belts, take off our heels, and cheerfully rot, like the boys?

You actually don't exist while you're in your bedroom, I say to the dog, so that she knows this important fact. Teenage girls in bedrooms aren't real.

He had what we often lack - the maturity to see that faith isn't something you either have or don't have, but something that ebbs and flows in the life and soul of every individual. Doubt isn't the...