This job made it possible for you to stay home all day and draw pictures.

This isn’t going to work, Justine murmured.It is going to work, I told her, keeping my tone confident. We’ll breeze right in. The Rack will be with us.Justine glanced at me with an arched eyebrow. The...

This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they've forgotten how to listen and look as children. They've forgotten how to collect data. In the psyc...

This is true, and defines the lostness of the grief struck. You constantly report things, so that the loved one 'knows'. You may be aware that you are fooling yourself (though, if aware, are at the sa...

This is the stuff we are made of, half indifference and half malice.

This is the deepest wish of my heart?Sure, Magnus said.Your father, proud of you. You, the hero of the hour. Me, loving you. Everyone approving of you.Alec looked over at Jace.Okay, what about the Jac...

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.

This is how it is now. There is strength in acceptance, Ling. Your legs have been taken from you. But how you choose to live with that has not.

This is a story of eternal love, which is born among the ices but which is soon mixed with dreams of death and of a new dawn. The first heroes were those who surrendered themselves to the holocaust of...

This here Sethe talked about love like any other woman; talked about baby clothes like any other woman, but what she meant could cleave the bone. This here Sethe talked about safety with a handsaw. Th...

This had to be the most curious situation in all of her life. Not that she had a great deal to compare it to, of course, living, as she had, quite a sheltered existence. But if anyone had ever had a f...

This figure upon the Cross is not a MVD agent or a Gestapo inquisitor, but a Divine Physician, Who only asks that we bring our wounds to Him in order that He may heal them. If our sins be as scarlet,...

This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.

This diary will tell the real life story of my great-grandmother Yasutani Jiko. She was a nun and a novelist and New Woman7 of the Taisho era.8 She was also an anarchist and a feminist who had plenty...

This century will be called 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. . Think of the me...

This breakage within us is what makes us human and vulnerable. There is nothing more sinister than someone whose mind seems to be an absolute circle; there is a helpless coldness and a deadly certaint...

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

Think of your mother, who had no father. And your grandmother, who was abandoned by her father. And your grandfather, who was left behind by his father. And think of how Prince's daughter was now draf...

Think about it. Politics is just a name for the way we get things done ... without fighting. We dicker and compromise and everybody thinks he has received a raw deal, but somehow after a tedious amoun...