It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.
It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.
It was not known precisely how many labor camps there were in North Korea, although the international consensus was six. The fact that they were numbered and those numbers reached at least as high as...
It takes courage to speak your heart, when others do not want you to.
His features were Middle Eastern, his eyes haunted but also defiant. They were all defiant, Gray had found. When he looked at someone like al-Omari, Gray couldn’t help but think of a Dostoyevsky creat...
He put in his search and refined it as he went along, adding as much information as he could remember. Finally, an address came back. He used street view to see the place.
He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit. And
Grand master of memory? What did she have to do? Three tasks. The first was to memorize one thousand random numbers in an hour. Next, she had to memorize the order of ten decks of cards in an hour. An...
Give an economist a result you want, and he’ll find the numbers to justify it.
George? said Puller. Oh, I’m sorry. You probably just knew him as Father Rooney. His first name is George.
Experience without cynicism was a sure sign your brain had dry-rotted and you hadn’t bothered to notice.
Every time I walk with Alex I'm reminded both how lucky I am to have friends like him and also how unworthy I am to have friends like him. - Oliver Stone
Even your kids wised up and realized you're an idiot. An evil one, but still an idiot. - Amy, to Isabel
Diamond Skinner had had no material possessions to his name and yet had been the happiest creature Lou had ever met. He and God would no doubt get along famously.
But then he put aside the awkward encounter, which his mind allowed him to do quite easily. He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit.
But don’t sit here and think that you’re cured, because that’s the biggest load of crap I’ve ever heard. People who want to get better, they work at it. They don’t lie to themselves and everyone else....
Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get...
Basically, in Alabama if you have a pulse you can have a gun, as many of them as you want.
BETH READ THROUGH the report on her computer screen three times. This was something her father had taught her. Read through once for general conceptualization and then a second time for the nitty-grit...
And he and millions of others had just fought a world war to ensure that neither anarchy nor fascism nor anything else would replace the reasonable screwing over of people without money by those who p...