That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.

That was how I learned that no is stronger than yes. (Shostakovich already knew that.) It takes two yesses for I to become we, but only one no for we to break apart, no matter what the other party wis...

That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is supposed to be...'Be a man. Discover where yo...

That night, I hated father. He smelt of cabbage. There was cigarette ash all over his trousers. His untidy moustache was yellower and viler than ever with nicotine, and he took no notice of me. He sim...

That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me...

That first peach slithers down his throat like rapture. A sunrise in his mouth.

That drew a laugh from Jessamy, but he said, after a moment: You had better flay me. It was my fault—all my fault!I was wondering how long it would be before you contrived to convince yourself that yo...

Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home,...

Thank you for helping my sister, he says.I lean forward, mimicking his position. I’m happy to.Calliope leans out her window. STOP FLIRTING AND GET BACK TO WORK.

Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. Be brave, she said. It's not a duck, is it?

Tertullian said of Christian belief that it was true because it was impossible. Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.

Tens of thousands of onlookers gaped in amazement as the shattered British troops marched out of Yorktown and, to the tune of an old English ballad, The World Turned Upside Down,

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

Tell me, Jeeves, I said. Suppose you were in a shop taking out of the lending library and a clergyman's daughter came in and without so much as a preliminary 'Hullo, there' said to you, 'Has he broug...

Teenage drinking has been declining since 1999, but students vastly overestimate their classmates' use of alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes. For example, a study conducted at a Midwestern high school whe...

Technology will find its inventors, rather than vice versa.

Technology was made possible by division of labour: market exchange calls forth innovation.

Teach her to stand up for what is hers. If another child takes her toy without her permission, ask her to take it back, because her consent is important. Tell her that if anything ever makes her uncom...

Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was a period defined by the struggle for individual political, economic, and personal liberty against various forms of oppression, and marked by war, genocide, and the threat of...