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Words are like wild birds - they will come when they wish, not when they are bidden.

More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul. ... The losses piled up.

A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.

Don't have children until you're ready to be a creator and give birth to creators. It is wrong to have children out of need, it is wrong to use a child to soothe your loneliness, it is wrong to create...

The only object we truly possess is our own mind. The only pleasure over which we have complete dominion is the progress of our own understanding.

Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life...

But identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through-the man you fell in love with years ago might look the same and speak the same and smell the same yet be completely different.

Mindless, stupid men! Playing with the lives of other men

Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.

Tig was a unique element with all valences open.

This fucking city is full of nothing but thugs, money grubbing porn-bitches, and hustlers. I'm calling the police." Ex fumed as he struggled to pull his cell from his pocket. If Syn weren't so damn...

I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can.

When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice.

She was a strange, unsettled planet that had had once sustained life. She was a language that I had thought I almost understood even though I couldn't speak it. She hadn't always been this way. She...

Fang pondered. It always amazes me how he's able to seem so calm at the absolute worst times. Sometimes he seems like a droid-or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2.

Brabantio: You are a villain!Iago: You are a senator!

The researchers concluded that during intercourse in the missionary position, the penis has the shape of a boomerang.

Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one that what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world.

If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people are at loading carts. Men trying to walk straight ahead through a narrow gateway with a wide wooden...

we shouldn't forget at each moment to ask, is this one of the unnecessary things?

It was a strange combination to absorb - the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his early days in seventeenth-century London.

Jenny Garp understood that in the world of her father’s ideas, we must have a certain supply of energy. Her famous grandmother Jenny Fields once perceived {and classified} people as “external”,...

People who die bad don't stay in the ground.

It was strange how the dullest party could be enjoyed because there was one person present whose eyes could be met for the fraction of a second, in wordless appreciation of a joke unshared by others:...

I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You...

But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered that it wasn't enough just to think at them: you had to say the words out loud. Bees were the...

from a bow, and had

as isolated and alone as if I'd been abandoned on the Patagonian ice cap and left to fend for myself.

I remember swimming {albeit nervously, for I was a nervous child, afraid of sinkholes and afraid of snakes, and perhaps that was the beginning of my error}

The Nazis have no sense of humor, so why should they want television? Anyhow, they killed most of the really great comedians. Because most of them were Jewish. In fact, she realized, they killed off...

No rational response was possible. Her irrationality made it so. The terrible power, he thought, of illogic.

A society that undermined its teachers and their authority only dug away at its own sure foundations.

Tonight has been the craziest, most insane night of perhaps my entire life-except the one I was born. I imagine that's insane, coming out of a vagina and all that.