But who cooks it? I asked, imaging an underground kitchen staffed by tiny, invisible chefs. Who serves it?I don't know, he said, with a disinterested shrug.I couldn't help laughing. John, food magical...
But one thing you can't change, unlike your hair or your shoes, is other people. Only they can do that.Sadly, they almost never do.But there's always hope.
But I let it slide, because, hello, hot guy.
Book light, Grandma grumbles as I hurry her away from Dad’s boss and his wife. Who the hell wantsa book light?Lots of people, I say. They are very handy things to have.
Because friends like that are more precious than all the tiaras in the world
Are you flirting with me?
Actually, it’s scary. Scarier than Freddy Kruger and Jason put together.
Accept the things I cannot change, I said. And pray for the courage to change the things I can, as well as the wisdom to know the difference.The thing is... I know this is good advice. It's called the...
A lot of stuff, I’ve noticed, gets manipulated by writers when it’s shown on television—even so-called reality television—and makes us think we’re supposed to think and act and look certain ways, when...
> CracKing: No need to yell. > FtLouie: I’m not yelling!!! > CracKing: You’re using excessive amounts of punctuation, and on-line, that’s like yelling.
I thought. I mean, really. Like my life's not complicated enough. Now I have to play Obi Wan Kenobi to this kid's Anakin Skywalker? It so isn't fair. When was I ever going to get the chance to be a n...
How many ghosts I was going to encounter. That Serra guy had to have a bunch of Native Americans mad at him—particularly considering that corporal punishment thing—and I hadn’t any doubt I was going t...
Easily solved. It was solved by wearing jeans under my skirt. Allie, Mom said.
But you know the minute I graduated high school I never looked at a single math problem again, right? I send everything with numbers on it to my accountant, or I make Michael deal with it. Great. Spok...
Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.
You can't look prim and righteous wearing a microscopic miniskirt and mile-high heels. Well it's pretty hard, anyway.
Yeah, Bryce said, but I mean, I drove her to it, you know? That’s the thing. If I just hadn’t broken up with her— You have a pretty high opinion of yourself, don’t you? He looked taken aback. What? We...
Y Won’t U B With Me, Kate?Oh, Kate, Y won’t U B with me?Kate, Don’t U know what U mean to me?I look at the dirty dishes piling up in the sinkand all I can thinkis KateU kept the place so cleanKate, I...
When I get out of this hospital, you and I are going to sit down and have a very long chat, Susannah, about proper mediation techniques. I don't know about this habit of yours of just walking up and p...
What's wrong?Nothing, I said. Because nothing was wrong. For the first time in my entire life, it seemed, everything was suddenly, fantastically right.