Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through—usually with relief that the choice was made. Sometimes the relief was...

Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Eve...

MagicSandra’s seen a leprechaun,Eddie touched a troll,Laurie danced with witches once,Charlie found some goblins gold.Donald heard a mermaid sing,Susy spied an elf,But all the magic I have knownI've h...

Ma's still nodding. You're the one who matters, though. Just you.I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

Ma non ci riuscì, a pensare. Pensare era al di sopra delle sue possibilità. Io lo capisco bene. Anch’io ho i miei problemi. I finali sfuggono. Le parti centrali non si trovano mai, ma peggio di tutto...

Ma knows everything except the things she doesn’t remember right, or sometimes she says I’m too young for her to explain a thing.

Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a sc...

Luck? Drizzt replied. Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.

Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to a...

Love makes us do wicked things.

Love is wiser than wisdom.

Love is wicked distraction.

Love is the madness which allows us to believe in magic.

Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. T...

Love is homesickness.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. (I Corinthians 13: 7-8a ESV)

Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.

Loren Hale: father of a cute-as-hell little boy, discipliner (but not in a shitty, Jonathan Hale way), and husband to an adorable, pinchable blanket-lump.

Lord, I don’t like some of the things I find taught in the Bible. I don’t like some of the ways you arrange the circumstances of my life. I confess I don’t even like the doctrine of grace—I’d rather e...

Looking at her, thinking of her transported him, which struck him as vile because now it was hard for him not to despise the icy serenity of their earlier relations. And he knew that he should not lov...