The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
The dust was deep and crisp and even.
The blue jay threads a flight-path through stripes of brightness and stripes of mossy dark.
This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think.
In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have my stammer if she could have her leg back, and I wondered if being happy's ab...
It is a gift from your ancestors and a loan from your descendants.
It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.
It's not lies or anything, just truths I made up.
I’d learn betrayals came in various shapes and sizes, but to betray someone’s dream is the unforgivable one.
I’m not in the Scouts any more,’ I remind her. Mr Moody our scoutmaster told me to get lost, so I did, and it took the Snowdonia mountain rescue service two days to find my shelter.
Mortality is inscribed in your cellular structure, and you say you’re not ill? Look at the painting. Look at it. She nods towards The Adoration of the Magi. I obey. I always will. Thirteen subjects, i...
Lavender's my favorite scent, after White-Out and bacon rind. I sat down on the steps, not sure where to go next. A July afternoon yawned. Mirage puddles'd shimmered on the Welland road as I rode here...
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, Cortes'll lay Tenochtitlan to waste again, and later...th...
Then the true true is diff'rent to the seemin' true? said I.Yay, an' it usually is, I mem'ry Meronym sain', an' that's why true true is presher'n'rarer'n diamonds
La historia no admite leyes, sólo consecuencias.¿Qué determina las consecuencias? Las acciones depravadas y las acciones virtuosas.¿Y qué determina las acciones? Las creencias.
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
The purpose of modern warfare is to slay as many civilians as possible.
Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he using it? And how can it be taken off the sonofabitch?
The world unmakes stuff faster than people can make it.
The present is a battleground . . . where rival what-ifs compete to become the future 'what-is.' How does one what-if prevail over its adversaries? The answer . . . 'Military and political power, of c...
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