Two features would be with her always. Her chin was firm and her mouth was as sweet as a flower and very wide and pink. Her hazel eyes were sharp and intelligent and completely fearless.
There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize.
There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers...
The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running sore.
The flies have conquered the flypaper.
That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
Samuel said that Tom was quavering over greatness, trying to decide whether he could take the cold responsibility. Samuel knew his son’s quality and felt the potential of violence, and it frightened h...
S-l-o-w-ness--it gave meaning to everything. It made everything royal.
Parents took honor from a daughter who was a teacher.
Looks kinda scrummy
It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary
It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted...
If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.
I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that....
He wanted to say something beautiful, I think.
Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.
And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They knew that the team and the wagon were worth much more. They knew the...
Ain’t many guys travel around together, he mused. I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.