The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.
Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.
God demonstrated His wisdom in that, even as people in Europe began despising the gospel, He was already preparing to go somewhere else.
Have you ever had a moment where you knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you were in the right place? That you were on the right journey? Maybe the sense that you’d crossed a boundary, jumped a hur...
I saw Demian's face and remarked that it was not a boy's face but a man's and then I saw, or rather became aware, that it was not really the face of a man either; it had something different about it,...
I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy bastard.You'll never find out. You-------- He kissed me. ~ Jack Travis & Ella Varner
I'm so glad you're here, Anne,' said Miss Lavendar, nibbling at her candy. 'If you weren't I should be blue…very blue…almost navy blue. Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and th...
If my mother's intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment for being a Jew, then she succeeded well enough. And in any case there were enough...
I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim t...
I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to be some great penance done for the killing. If we no longer have religion after the war then I thin...
I knew that his confession would be a tremendous relief to him but a burden to me. Such information, once shared, can never be retracted.
I know you, said Maddy. You’re -What’s a name? Loki grinned. Wear it like a coat; turn it, burn it, throw it aside, and borrow another. One-Eye knows; you should ask him.But Loki died, she said, shaki...
He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.
He was the first to reach the aircraft, and he went for the door that by some miracle was facing outward and not into the concrete wall. Wrenching the thing open, and getting out his flashlight, he di...
Hermes's shoulders sagged. They'll try, Percy. Oh, we'll all try to keep our promise. And maybe for a while things will get better. But we gods have never been good at keeping oaths. You were born bec...
I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,though no fables are really about animals.
I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.
True friendship never questions what it costs you.
This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render...
I just met Stephen King in my dreams... I just said what I have watched and read from his books... Mainly I received a hug from him, it was like we are friends from long time.
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