Literature had torn Tessa and me apart, or prevented us from merging in the first place. That was its role in the world, I'd started to fear: to conjure up disagreements that didn't matter and inspire...

Listen up, nerd, he said, glancing over his shoulder while I wrapped myself against his back. Man, you feel good like that. Your huge brain is working at a wavelength I don’t understand. Repeat what y...

Listen to me. I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the g...

Linda Ross Vice president of operations for the Corporation and U.S. Navy veteran.

Likewise, an increase in personal performance (regardless of whether it is caused deterministically or by the agency of Lady Fortuna) induces a rise of serotonin in the subject, itself causing an incr...

Like the pleasure of friendship, the pleasure in beauty is curious: it aims to understand its object, and to value what it finds.

Like the NRA says, it's better to have a machine gun and not need it than to need a machine gun and not have it.

Like most people who decide to get sober, I was brought to Alcoholics Anonymous. While AA certainly works for others, its core propositions felt irreconcilable with my own experiences. I couldn't, for...

Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragran...

Like Matthew's Bible before it, the Geneva Bible alienated the establishment on account of its marginal notes.

Lightning’s echo comes as thunder. And the city waits for thunder’s echo, for a wall of heat that burns Lahore with the energy of a thousand summers, a million partitions, a billion atomic souls split...

Life's a forge! Yes, and hammer and anvil, too! You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand boldly to it! Metal's worthless till it's shaped and...

Life is too short to dance with ugly men

Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like J...

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

Life is divided up into phases, he said. Each one is very different from the others, and you have to be able to recognize what is expected of you in each phase. That’s the secret of successful living.

Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of ‘Life’ that makes the concept of 'Value’ possible. It is only t...

Life doesn´t come with any guarantees. You have to risk it to get the biscuit. - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo

Life could be very distracting, thought Isabel. And that was a good thing. It kept her from focusing on things that couldn't be changed, such as the fact that she'd never finished culinary school, or...

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