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Felicia's Journey by the Irish short-story writer and novelist William Trevor.
My life flies away like a dream: Why should I stay behind?
This is a disturbing fetish, Vin," he says, coming up for air. "Why can't you be into bondage like everyone else?
What do you want?" I was trying so hard to stay calm, and failing miserably. Rrrrrrip. I felt cool air on my navel. "To make ...
You are loved, you are beautiful, you are treasured, and you are a daughter of the living God.
I am trying to ignore each of my thoughts and each of my stories and books... if I read them... they never sound well, but ...
His voice was an iceberg, slow and deadly.
Fix your eyes on eternity with Jesus.
I mean, here we are in LA. The home of celebrities. They're the local natural phenomenon. Everyone knows you come to LA to see the ...
Don't get that unrequited-love, moony-woo-woo look
And is it not ridiculous to think of justice when society greets all violence as a reasonable and expedient necessity, and any act of mercy ...
I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They're too beautiful to wear.
People who understand basketball definitely appreciate what I bring to the table.
God sends the cold according to the coat.
You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have ...
If you abandon the political arena, somebody is going to be there. Corporations aren't going to go home and join the PTA. They are going ...
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. ...
I'm going to outplay you. That's the mentality I have, and you should want to outplay me.
There's only certain things you can control. I know how hard I work, I know how I take care of myself, and those are the ...
We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened ...
I don't know how to blow stuff up. You were hurting, and I wanted to help, but I didn't know how, so I blew something ...
In my small way I became an integral part of the pottery movement, and added fuel to the fire which consumed New Zealand and and ...
Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!
If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants, ...
When two oxen are yoked together, they must pull in the same direction, Marcus. If one pulls to the right, and the other to the ...
If God is really my Father, I have rights, and He has responsibilities. I hereby claim my birthright to be protected, educated, and provided for!
I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it's probably safe to say that I didn't fully appreciate ...
Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!Everybody is going, ...
I watch the TV or learn scripts while on the elliptical - need to get back on it!
You get into trouble if you criticize big business. The roof falls in if you criticize Congress. And we're getting increasingly cautious in criticizing the ...
You are a powerhouse of creativity; you were born magnificently expressive, available and aware. Before you had the words for it, you had an intrinsic ...
I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned ...
He is so shy, Juliet. He always has been-I don't think anybody's ever been in love with him, or him with anybody before, so he'd ...
I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. ...
Smack me if we ever get that awful.""But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?""We ...
Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts ...
As the head of security for an airline, I can't ask my passengers to risk their lives and jump on a terrorist. This is why ...
There are some moments you won't completely heal from, those rare ones you will take torn open to the grave but throughout all the big ...
I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.
I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party ... this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.
Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous ...
It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.
Should we give you a wake-up call with some anime songs?
I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or ...
Discipline is "the systematic management of your life to prepare and position you for your divine design." Discipline and stewardship are one and the same. ...
You are so adorable. You can never be bad. Everyone has a hysterical part in himself, and I may be that part you. I'm just ...
Yeah, right. I don't believe that one for a minute. What do you think? I fell off a turnip truck? (Simone)Honestly? All I was thinking ...
I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find ...
Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.
I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and ...
But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.""'They?' Who are 'they?'""I don't know. Just people.""That's what the ...
He was like one people turned away from; He was despised, and we didn't value Him. Isaiah 53:3
I want to go out there and do some different things that people are like, "Wow. That's crazy. Why didn't I think of that?"
And, anyway it's not always about fitting in.""It's not?""Nope. Sometimes, it's about reading your environment real quick, and then finding the bits that fit you.
Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.
Not much good has ever been prefaced by variations of "Have a seat." I thought of headmasters' offices and electric chairs.
In India ink your writing is lovely, but not as lovely as your hand - it is your hand - I know your hand - ...
What is a spell after all but a way of coaxing syllables together so persuasively that some new word is spelled ... some imprecision clarified, ...
The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.
I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.
Nothing is so rewarding than the patience that you take to go over the ramps of life. They may slow you down, but you are ...
I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.
God is a man of such perfect, flawless character that he only watches over everyone equally the strong and the weak, the rich and the ...
Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap ...
I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always ...
When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Don't be afraid to try, because you never look back on life and smile at what you could have attempted. Joy only brightens your countenance ...
Beware of following a train of thought.
I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.
It seems to me that dealing with little boys is a lot like playing poker. You need to know when to hold them, when to ...
You dare glamour me? he growled, his violet eyes burning as they bore into my own. Lucien just pressed me harder into the wall.
We're angry about this, upset about that, but who has the time to do anything anymore? There are those reports to report on, memos to ...
Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.
Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don't make it? An edge of panic gets intercepted by a calmer inner voice: Look behind ...
If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get exceptional, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly ...
I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.
Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are ...
There's such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life - ...
It would make this a perfectly normal alien invasion.
I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but ...
Isn't it interesting how nationalistic attitudes foster the notion that being gay is 'un-(fill in your nationality/ religion/ culture here)'?
I always try to think before I talk.
Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?
Aromatherapy can be used to calm the mind and bring anger under control. The best essential oils for anger management are bergamot, jasmine, neroli, orange, ...
No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.
As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring ...
A bad magician never gets the good props.
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
When I was 19, I picked up an old, tiny, automatic Yashica camera and I just started shooting. We didn't have iPhones back then, we ...
To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.
Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can't possibly imagine. Every day is a blank page that you ...
A muscle in the Commander's jaw jumps, and he levels his fierce glare on Willow. "You have a big mouth.""I need a big mouth to ...
You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen ...
The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.
A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.
We've probably run a mile, maybe two, and with each new corridor that turns up nothing, stress floods my veins.
In business, everyone has a different weight.