I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
I was not crying - eyes water. I think we all know I'm a badass and I don't cry. - Caleb
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and...
It takes more courage to smile than to frown. So meet the world with a smile and the courageous will smile back.
It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness. It is power.
It's alright, you know... To love him... Please, child, do you think I don't know you at all? I'm not going to say there is some easy future for you, or even any future at all. I only want you not to...
Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others are sad.
She could be soft and sensitive. He'd provide the armor for her.
How you been, Bernie? Royce greeted him. Going for a walk? Actually, I was about to find a place to relieve myself. Good, I'll go with you. Go with me? he asked nervously. I've been known to help...
it came to feel more a fortress than a home. A fortress of solitude.
Papa stirred in the candlelight, opening his eyes. Oh, Samantha, he murmured, his smile weak. You're as pretty as your mother. She shook her head. Her body was covered with dust, her hair windblown,...
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...