The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.
The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody wants... They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump se...
Sometimes you make plans. Sometimes plans make themselves.
People are like that, judging you before they know you.
Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.
Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke
It is not easy. Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.
I notice her the way you notice the differences in someone who’s been away a long time. And it hasn’t been a long time. It’s only been long for us.
I know it’s technically goodwill to all men, but in my mind, I drop the men because that feels segregationist/elitist/sexist/generally bad ist.Goodwill shouldn’t be just for men. It should also apply...
I don’t mean this to sound hopeless. Because in the same way that a kid can realize what c-a-t means, I think we can find the truths that live behind our words. I wish I could remember the moment when...
I am stronger than words and bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.
How can you not be concerned that I might have cancer? I ask. I found a lump on my breast. Touch it, Ely. Touch it. Lie. Not only are you biting your lip, which you always do when you lie, but your mo...
So even though it doesn’t seem like anything’s changed— —things change all the time, mostly in little ways. That’s how it goes, I guess.
She told me if I clean all the ashes out of the grate, then I’ll be able to help my sisters get ready for the ball.
Perhaps it’s only the vehicle that won’t start, but it feels like it’s my life that won’t start. Yes, this Yugo with the passenger-side seat metal coming through the torn seat fabric, scratching again...
Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.
I turn the key and I turn the key and I turn the key and she doesn't do a damn thing.
I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I will minister the gospel of compassion and kindness and please, always use a condom, from famine-strick...
He can act a bit loner-ish, but I think he's some serial killer waiting to happen; he's just his own best company sometimes. And he's comfortable with that. I guess there's nothing wrong with that.
Ash has a huge customized Barbie collection. Aside from Horror Movie Barbie (head lopped halfway off, torn and bloody clothes), Commando Barbie (camouflage bandana, pistol-whipping Ken with toy guns s...