You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was worth. And as you grew up, you sought love, anywhere you could find it, whether it...
You cannot go to the cemetery and ask to be enlightened on matters of this kind, though it would ease my mind considerably if you could.
Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?
Why?’ She nods. ‘She had everything: a family who loved her, friends, activities. Her mother wants to know why she threw it all away?’ Why you want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yours...
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly. —Richard David BachThe caterpillar believes it is dying because it's being sealed in a tomb. The Master knows that the ca...
Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini, timing myself carefully so I didn't burn. I loved the smell of coconut oil. And I don't...
We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is dama...
Warm summer twilight here in upper Illinois country in this little town deep far away from everything, kept to itself by a river and a forest and a meadow and a lake. The sidewalks still scorched. The...
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.
There's good news and slightly less good news.
There was such glittering darkness in her, an endless rift straight through her core
There is really no natural limit to the practice of loving kindness in meditation or in one’s life. It is an ongoing, ever-expanding realization of interconnectedness. It is also its embodiment. When...
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
The sisters' voices were almost identical, laughing mezzos tuned in childhood to the same pitch and timbre. To the ear, they were twins; to the eye, nothing alike. Emily was tall and slender with her...
The only sharks I’m afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos.
The color of your dress really brings out the extraordinary paleness of your skin tone. Are you unwell? Dying, perhaps?
The Cyclops was about to roll the stone back into place, when from somewhere outside Annabeth shouted, Hello, ugly!Polyphemus stiffened. Who said that?Nobody! Annabeth yelled.That got exactl;y the rea...
Sed lex, dura lex
Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just...Jean: A little brat who swears a lotMaes: An arrogant pipsqueakRoy: Useless. Just uselessAlphonse: Sorry big brother, I don't know how to add to that...Ed *starts...
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