But sometimes speaking is so hard! It's like standing still, then sprinting.
We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.
There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.
She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to suppress them. I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or...
Other people were so unsuccessful at fending off love! Members of Congress who had affairs with their aides, or students who I'd known in college, girls who as freshmen declared themselves lesbians, t...
Once I had asked, ‘But are you a Democrat or a Republican? and Jonathan said, I’m socially progressive but fiscally conservative, and Doug Miles, a football player who also came to Sunday breakfast bu...
In camine, unii dintre elevi se apucasera deja sa impacheteze, lucru pe care eu il uram – vedeam peretii goi si suprafetele lipsite de obiecte ca pe niste aluzii rauvoitoare la cat de efemer era totul...
I seriously think he’s one of those dudes where, his whole life, he’s gotten credit for being smart and moral for no reason other than he’s tall. Anyway,
Fred! the nurse said, though they had never met. How are we today? Reading the nurse's name tag, Mr. Bennet replied with fake enthusiasm, Bernard! We're mourning the death of manners and the rise of o...
The fact that I had no opinion on, for instance, relations between the U.S. And China did nit mean I didn't feel things.
Since Liz’s adolescence, when viewing television commercials that celebrated the ostensibly unconditional love of mothers for their children, or on spotting merchandise in stores that honored this uni...
She wasn’t wrong, which wasn’t the same as the idea being a wise one.
Rudolph Walsh, you are my fierce advocate, and your wit and wisdom
Profii de aici le-au vazut pe toate. Noi ne percepem ca individualitati distincte, dar in ochii lor nu suntem decat o masa de nevoi adolescentine. – Gates Medkowski
Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people...
It occurred to Liz one day, as she waited on hold for an estimate from a yard service, that her parents’ home was like an extremely obese person who could no longer see, touch, or maintain jurisdictio...
In the end, there was always your regular life, and no one could deal with it but you.
I think my mother found her mother-in-law entertaining, and in a person who entertains us, there is much we forgive.
I take it you don't believe in love at first sight.''Does anyone over the age of thirteen? Do you?''I don't, no,' Darcy said. 'But I don't rule out for others what I haven't experienced first hand.
I noticed then that the red-haired woman was buying the food you eat when you live alone: a box of cereal, a few apples, a plastic container of plain yogurt....With an abrupt clarity, I saw how I had...