It's rare when there's something we can do for ourselves which also pleases someone else.
It was best not to ask Pepe if reading or Jesus had saved him, or which one had saved him more.
It had been an evening in the empty dance hall when not even that depth of stone and the constant stirring of the ceiling fans could cool the stifling and humid night air, which had entered the Duckwo...
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
I shared my grandmother’s distaste for the word rector—it sounded too much like rectum to be taken seriously.
I actually remember my grandfather better as a woman than as a man.
He felt fortunate to be with Helen; she had her own ambitions and he could not manipulate here.
Every time you throw a snail off the dock, Ray teased Homer Wells, you're making someone start his whole life over. Maybe I'm doing him a favor, said Homer Wells, the orphan.
Don’t forget: Miss Frost was an older woman, and that goes a long way with boys—even if the older woman has a penis!
Das Leben ist leider nicht so gebaut wie ein guter, altmodischer Roman. Vielmehr endet es, wenn sich diejenigen, die sich erschöpfen sollen, erschöpft haben. Alles, was bleibt, ist die Erinnerung.
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
As for Dr. Zajac’s modest contribution to the ongoing pollution of the Charles River… well, let’s be fair… In his hopelessly old-fashioned opinion, a lot worse than dogshit was dumped into the Charles...
Anne-Elisabeth had taken the music from Dr. Horvath and was looking through it. 'I see finger-cramping possibilities, William - of them,' she told him.I see ,' William said, winking at her. ' of it.
Am I not here, for I am your mother?
All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.
Wherever Melony went, she would not be without guidance, she would not be without love, without faith; she had a good book with her. If only she'll keep reading it, and reading it
… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.
Дженни Гарп понимала, что в мире представлений ее отца мы должны обладать определенным запасом энергии. Ее знаменитая бабка Дженни Филдз когда-то воспринимала (и классифицировала) людей как «внешников...
Obdurately
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't.