Seeking advice is a subtle way to invite someone to make a commitment to us.
"Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!"
Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.
"Don't touch me. It makes my skin crawl." {Grace}...
There will be two ships sailing, but you'll be on the Resolution, with Cook himself. Never put yourself in his way. Never speak to him. And if you do speak to him, which you must never do, certainly...
"Do you hear?" Sophie asked dryly. "No," he said, plopping down into the chair next to her, "although my mother is constantly telling me to make myself right at home." She could think of no witty...
Sometimes it happens that people we don't know inspire sudden interest in us when we see them for the first time, even before exchanging a word with them.
C'mon, let's go join those tedious people.
Let's both be good, and truthful, and kind to each other, and let's be happy together and have fun always.
Sometimes I get to know myself through others
The hours we spent in the workshop are hours I will never forget. My feelings, throughout that entire period, oscillated between the purest love and the most unrestrained hatred, faced with the...
you used to do that. If you hid your face, you thought we couldn't see you just because you couldn't see us.
He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.
schmoozes the customers, brings light and warmth to the
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....