This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?Yes, she said.That's influenza, said Miro. Watch for nausea...
For me, Ted, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them …
Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia's Dismal Swamp, nor Rome's accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the million miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the moon. The sun hides not the ocean,...
She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels...
What he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him.
The world was not how you wanted it to be. The world was how it was.
They resisted that essential inductive leap from the immediate reform to the social ideal, and, just as disappointingly, they failed to perceive their common cause with other minorities, continued to...
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
Yossarian quickened his pace to get away, almost ran. The night was filled with horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a...
being articulate is not a facility of language but a fidelity to vision. And so we are all articulate when finding the courage to say what we see.
He was not accustomed to busying himself with introspection or self-analysis. In this way he was like most people who are rarely alone. His mind did not swing into action until some external force...
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
At first Lissar merely ran away; away from the yellow city, away from the prince whom she loved with both halves of her broken heart.
He breathed in her hair, the sweet-smelling thickness of it. My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed stance and jaw was the word Provider, and he loved her the...
The ship was top heavy as a dinnerless student with his head full of Aristotle.
The Angels don't like to be called losers, but they have learned to live with it. Yeah, I guess I am, said one. But you're looking at one loser who's going to make a hell of a scene on the way out.
Women loved their babies from the second they pushed them into the world; they were programmed to love them, feed them, and protect them, no matter what.
Your mum is gone, but you are a part of her legacy – while you live, she will never really be dead. You have her blood in your veins, and her wisdom in your mind. Your child will be a part of her...
Dux femina facti The leader of the enterprise a woman. Virgil
The characteristic human feature is not consciousness but conformism, and the characteristic result is religious war. Other animals fight for territory or food; Human beings, on the other hand, are...
But absence of proof is not proof of absence.
All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?
The shaykh interrupted him, saying, Not so fast. I'm the sort of person who praises only to clear the way to speak the truth, for the sake of encouragement, son of Abd al-Jawad
the end of the world as they knew it.
She was ashamed. She would not--she would not--be frightened of him: he was what he was, and he had made a promise he would keep.
HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to....
Dogs are very comforting when your world has exploded.
I loved every one of these people. And I couldn't take another minute of their company.
No wonder he'd never really finished becoming one of us. We just thought it was because he was half Japanese, and lived in a huge house on the other side of town with a dad who was never home and who...
But it is not, as we say when we are being diplomatic, a fruitful source of inquiry.
I feel like a potato that's recently been mashed,"she said."
Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.
Adverse winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
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....
