More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul. ... The losses piled up.
You're a storyteller, Alice Edevane, Ben had told her late one afternoon, as the river tripped coolly by and the pigeons came home to roost. I've never met a person with such a clever imagination,...
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the...
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.
Words are like wild birds - they will come when they wish, not when they are bidden.
It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.
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...
Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.
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...
I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my 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.
Jacob smiled from ear to ear when he shook the man's hand on stage. The man then handed him a trophy.
from a bow, and had
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...
Don't blame if people are too harsh on you, maybe they have been hurt badly before.
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!
It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
The researchers concluded that during intercourse in the missionary position, the penis has the shape of a boomerang.
IN THE SPRING OR WARMER weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of...
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.
Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him. I know he's real. I have seen his work.
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”,...
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....
