Charles Dickens Quote

Sometimes it can be as brutally overwhelming as a tidal wave flooding every orifice, the suffocation, the pressure, the immensity of this damnable depression like an ocean, unsurmountable. It swallows...

Newly Found Sugary Spill: Tastes Like Dried Spit or Old Soda

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.

Childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.

The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut.

Kissing him last night at the pep rally had been like kissing an underpass.

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

I look at him and my body reacts in a way that it never has before, even in the throes of passion. I look at him and I start aching so deep inside it takes all I can to think, to breathe, to speak. He...

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and th...