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How could she have gone from the most exhilarating thing that has ever happened in her life to a moment filled with pure humiliation? She ...
A little light in the dark night A faint voice is calling you This way! This way! This flickering, wavering little voiceLike dew, like a ...
She was good at that, repressing her feelings, disguising them as something else. Sometimes she thought it was the only thing she was good at.
Skateboarding is not for girls at all.
Again, keep everything.
He, the man, had seen her, touched her, and had not validated her beauty, her womanliness. He had turned away and gone to his own ...
Cancer. The word meant the same to me as tsunami or piranha. I had never seen them; I wasn't even quite sure what they were, ...
I'm sorry I tried to burn you in the flames of Hell on your birthday." She actually looked repentant. "It's ok." I patted her small ...
This is the story of how I "came down with cat," even though I had decided I would never, ever, own any pet.
Injustice lives in the unquiet heart.
There's nothing like a player playing the game of life with a coach rooting them on.
Every man lives. Not every man truly dies.
A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.
You are not responsible for your pain. You are responsible for managing it, controlling it, minimising it.
Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing
Sometimes what we need is right in front of us, we just have to connect the dots and embrace what we already know.
For the days were so full of unthinking effort
I never set out to do anything unusual or newsworthy. I just like tostudy and learn, and I've always been that way.
Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices have become second nature
Of course, only fools believed in perfection. Only lunatics tried to achieve it.
It's swimple, really!
Rather than envy, anticipation, or joy, what I feel when I look at the bride is a shortness of breath. I hear the echo of ...
You would be derailing your life voluntarily out of fear that it might become ruined by chance. Or you could pick up and move on. ...
Old elbows," she told me. "A woman's elbows always give her age away.
He said. Academy alumni with quantitative skills go on to become stockbrokers. There are damned few patrician scientists.
Til undeath do us part.
Fear is energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, ...
It presents a really compelling case against the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. From my point of view, it is a theory that has ...
I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction.
We travel to see the world in new ways, to feel ourselves fully in the world, immersed in the experience of discovery.
By late-2000 Wal-Mart's losses were running in excess of £150 million a year in Germany from its 95 stores, and the company was ranked bottom ...
There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added ...
What do elves consider a living wage?" Keith whispered to Gunther.Gunther just shrugged. "Their own pair of pants?
True freedom lies within how and if we choose to fly,Perhaps I need to focus on flying,
I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You ...
The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.
The only wave that changes anything is a tsunami. You have to tear down the houses and destroy that land if you want to be ...
O Lord Most-wise, strengthen us by Your power that we not fear the non-believing world neither when they lash us with whips nor when they ...
The prime minister had abused his position as minister in charge of the SIS to embarrass another politician only months before an election.
Dead pirates didn't get to spend their booty. Dead pirates didn't get to shake their booty, either. Bummer.
IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.
As a young man, my father taught me a valuable lesson: never be afraid to accept a handout. Not a hand-up, mind you, as hand-ups ...
Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.
The basis of the Philosophy of Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises ...
These three elements are called Qawwali, and they've got to be there.
Every parasite needs a host," Jay said."Every Queen needs an empire," McLoughlin said.
You can't herd the stars. You can only gaze at them, never touch, like love. Yes, you can 'be' in love and 'fall' in love, ...
It was a pleasure to watch them eating jalebis, always entreating the other to eat some more - the beauty of love that had mellowed ...
When you could do anything, what you decide to do is important.
The shouting came to a halt, replaced by a tense silence that hung in the air like a fog on a cold winter morning. The