The shelf life of any great love is fifteen years. After that you need a serious preservative, which can seriously harm your health.
The store was empty, without a single customer or employee. It appeared in the Internet age, pianos, like physical books, were fast becoming culturally extinct. They’d probably stay that way unless Ap...
The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing ... it never stops.
There it is, he'd say reverentially. The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make believe.
There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don’t worry, people are still fucking crazy.
There was an unspoken understanding that when a reporter chased a story, hunches and theories became airborne and other reporters could catch them like a cold.
There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, .
They looked happy, but, of course, that didn't say much.
They should really tack that on to the marriage ceremony: 'Do you promise to love, honor, obey me, and also to kill me when I can no longer stand in a shower?
They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang.
We're living longer, we social network alone with our , and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a .
Those were the best nights of my life. I couldn’t say why, exactly, this was so—only that I knew that as an old woman, when I thought back to my youth, I’d remember these nights, sitting with these fi...
Time leeches most horror and pain from our memories.
To be next to her was to have everything.
To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful.
Today dies a crooked and gluttonus man' - it was true, at least literally; McCullough allegedly weighed three hundred pounds and suffered from scoliosis.
Vast fortunes did that to people. It took them to the cleaners, cruelly starched and steam-pressed them so all their raw edges, all the dirt and hunger and guileless laughter, were ironed out. Few sur...
WELCOME TO THE BLACKBOARDSThis is the Cordovites' premier wormhole, where time ticks backward, trees grow down, light eats itself, fear is an opening, and life is Sovereign, Deadly, Perfect.
We are all anthologies. We are each thousands of pages long, filled with fairy tales and poetry, mysteries and tragedy, forgotten stories in the back no one will ever read. The most we can do is hold...
We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.
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