Until you get the measure of your own soul, Jim, don't be quick to condemn a priest, or anyone else for that matter. I'm not scolding you, sweetheart, she said hurriedly. It's just that, until you've...
Abandon a dachshund and upon your return, you may well be confronted with a small token of her displeasure. This, for the dachshund, is an undignified but necessary form of training. Eventually, you w...
Eternal beginner, starting over and over in a new place in new circumstances, with new languages, new people, a new commission. They had this in common: the continual rushed confrontation with change,...
They spoke then, with the dear and ordinary intimacy of the well-married in the eye of a storm. [369]
I'll take honest arrogance over fake humility any day.
Our physicists have confirmed the practicality of using an altered asteroid for transport,
The trick is not to care. I have a perfect indifference to winning.
And Johannes Voelker is the last man on Earth I’d choose as a spiritual director for Sandoz, he thought. Shit or get off the pot, my son.
Deus vult, mes amis, Marc Robichaux called cheerfully from the galley. God likes it that way.
You know what’s the most terrifying thing about admitting that you’re in love?...You put yourself in harm’s way and you lay down all your defenses...Completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it...
As far as Wyatt Earp knew, it was not illegal to beat a horse. In the past few years, he’d worked as a part-time policeman in a string of Kansas cow towns. Each time he was sworn in, he made an effort...
No one who does not live with constant pain can imagine the toll it takes. The way it grinds you down. The sheer damnable tedium of it.
Bein' born is craps, he decided. He glanced at Morg and let loose that sly, lopsided smile of his. How we live is poker.
Bein' born is craps. How we live is . Mamma played a bad hand well.
I do not want to spend another of whatever I have left bein' scared. I can't carry the fear anymore. Not mine. Not yours. I have to lay that burden down.
But, Jimmy! What unnatural words. Always and forever! Those aren’t human words, Jim. Not even stones are always and forever.
Your Holiness, we are more than prepared to concede that overpopulation alone is not the sole cause of poverty and misery, Giuliani began. Fatuous oligarchies, Gelasius suggested. Ethnic paranoia. Whi...
I am damned if I will spend my time listenin' to ungrammatical, repetitious, imbecilic nonsense without a challenge!
Home...if there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.
Tradition was safety; change was danger.
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