Like two moths clumsily bumping together, with no more weight than that, their lips touched. Then before they knew how it happened, they were clinging together, blindly pressing their faces towards ea...
And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn’t feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the Aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It’s w...
We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. We
And if we - later on - she was whispering shakily, If we meet someone we like, and if we marry them, then we must be good to them, and not make comparisons all the time and wish we were married to eac...
Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base.Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base. • JOHN RUSKIN
She’s mad. Best leave her be, in case it’s catching.
Your death taps you on the shoulder, or takes your hand, and says, ‘Come along o’ me, it’s time.
Shame to die with one bullet left, though.
Friends … They come to your house and they know your parents and.… Sometimes a boy might ask me around to his house, and I might go or I might not, but I could never ask him back. So I never had frien...
Mr. makepeace, do you really turn lead into gold?no, of course not. no one can do that. but if people think you're foolish enough to try, they don't bother to look at what you're really doing. they le...
It might not be fair, but no one’s to blame.
Now, I want to get going, but I’ve only got one leg. Could you find one?
She had suddenly realized something about people like this -- whether they were businessmen, policemen, civil servants, hotel proprietors, landlords, or what: it was that they didn't mean what they sa...
Nothing is just anything.
And then my uncle killed him anyway just to teach him a lesson.
She lay on her bunk thinking of that savage mighty bear, and the careless way he drank his fiery spirit, and the loneliness of him in his dirty lean-to. How different it was to be human, with one’s dæ...
I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the...
Всичко ти е ясно, всичко разбираш, но то е толкова дълбоко, че не можеш да се добереш до дъното.
You going to be a scientist when you grow up? That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.
One hears all sorts of things. The question is whether they matter.
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