He recorded me once, so I know exactly how I look when I’m engaged in one of these internal dialogues—and that makes me determined to avoid them in public. My eyes go blank, unfocused, like no one’s h...
He pushes his chair back and goes to the kitchen. Are you hungry? Yes. I’m thinking Kentucky Fried Rooster. There’s another chorus of cock-a-doodle-doo just as I finish speaking, and he laughs. Henry’...
Each kid got a small allowance for helping with the harvests, and Kiernan would always head straight to the tobacco shop. Not for cigarettes. At first, he even threw the cigarettes away, but later he'...
Time is it? I'm hesitant to ask, since it means she'll speak again and my head really can't take it, but
Some people feel they’re being oppressed or held back, even if they have everything they need or everything that a reasonable person could want. Some people always want more.
Slán go fóill, a stór mo chroí.
Penso che sia importante sapere di essere desiderati, magari perfino di essere necessari, non credete? Ci dà qualcosa a cui aggrapparci quando siamo smarriti in un posto estraneo.
If your faith is so shaky that it can be undermined by books that challenge it, then something is rotten at the core.
He'll sit stock still for hours if there's something to occupy his mind—something loud and blaring, like a computer game or an action movie. But sit still and read a book? Or just look at the stars? I...
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, is the truth.
Waiting politely won’t get you across the street in Boston, he informs me, at least not in 1905. There aren’t any of those blinking idiot signs that show a hand and count down the seconds for you.
The manager rolls his eyes. Sorry, miss, already picked my dozen— So make it a baker’s dozen, someone yells from the back. Bet she can’t hit the bloody nail anyway. Give us somethin’ to laugh at. That...
I no longer believe that there are clear sides in all of this. It’s not black or white, good or evil, from where I’m standing. Here in the middle, everything looks gray.
I know they’re doing their jobs. In many cases, they even go above and beyond. But a lot of them don’t seem to understand that the system they’re enforcing isn’t always fair and what looks safe may be...
He is, however, picturesque. The colors of the Coors Light can are an almost perfect match for the streaks of silver-white in his beard, the blue of his shirt, and the red of the baseball cap, now han...
As soon as he turns the key, a man with a heavy British accent starts talking about giants not being meant to live in groups. That’s . . . Hagrid. , Aaron says. I got the full set as a Christmas prese...
Aaron rolls his eyes. You have a very possessive boyfriend. I start to correct him, but maybe having Aaron think Deo’s my overprotective boyfriend is a good thing. I could say he’s at the gym, lifting...
That increasing the role of religion in society would make things worse, not better.
You’ll always have discontents in any system, Kate. Some people feel they’re being oppressed or held back, even if they have everything they need or everything that a reasonable person could want. Som...
You ever heard that bit about don’t look a gift horse in the mouth?I’ve heard it. Although the Trojans would have fared better with Athens if they had ignored that advice. I had to look up that refere...