We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.
Apparently, all you needed to be considered normal was no evidence to the contrary.
Like they say, you never know a person till you’ve done time with them.
I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.
He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.
No Utopia is Utopia for everyone
I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.
An attack on SeaWorld might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.
So the studies don't back me up. There'll always be more studies. We'll change our minds and I'll have been right all along until we change our minds again, send me back to being wrong.
Instead I watched our mother obsessively for signs of breakage.
But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy.
Scully was appallingly gregarious—so outgoing she was practically incoming.
Jocelyn was dumbstruck. She couldn’t think of a single thingshe’d done that might give that impression. I don’t.
Je zou maar slecht over hem gaan denken en dat wil ik niet, want dat is mijn taak
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