It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love in...

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

The Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

You're pining, said Jace.Alec shrugged. Look who's talking. 'oh I love her. Oh, she's my sister. Oh why, why, why—

You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up

What’s the problem, babe? Judd asked, climbing off the bike and caressing my cheek. I feel underdressed. I look trashy. Glancing over my jeans, gray sweater, beige jacket, and tennis shoes, Judd frown...

Well, did he do it?She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant did it or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- th...

Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the reasonable person standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform principle is almost synonymou...

Un hombre espantoso entra y se mira al espejo.«¿Por qué se mira al espejo si no ha de verse en él más que con desagrado?».El hombre espantoso me contesta: «Señor mío, según los principios inmortales d...

The only sign of war was a cloud of dust migrating from east to west. It looked through the windows, trying to find a way inside, and as it simultaneously thickened and spread, it turned the trail of...

The Wet Tongue Gets Stuck To A Frozen Flagpole attack!

Tell her I was young once and star-brightWho am now invisible . . .

So much of how we see the world is the matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.

She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark - what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his G...

Nowadays, at the other end of life, I have a rule of thumb about whether or not two people are having an affair: if you think they might be, then they definitely are.