Sometimes the true value of the piece is how much a person loves it.
Sonnet. What the hell kinda name is Sonnet? My mom was into Shakespeare when she had me—a May birthday. I’m named after Sonnet number 18. Do you know it? ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day,’ Jeze...
Stay woke,
Survival was a powerful driving force, stronger than hatred and love combined.
The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss?
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. —Marcus Aurelius
The dispatcher said they’re ten minutes out. That was almost ten minutes ago, so— Okay, I need to concentrate here. Faith knew it was better to perform a few unnecessary chest compressions for someone...
The empty prairie, crisscrossed by a grid of startlingly straight roads, rolled out like a vast wasteland in front of the hood ornament of the GTO. It was remarkable, Sarah thought, how quickly the su...
Understanding. The day she and Rand had broken up, her father had spoken with surprising insight: There’s a kind of love that has the power to save you, to get you through life. It’s like breathing. Y...
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. —Buddha
The term honeymoon was coined to refer to the sweetness of a new marriage. But according to Norse legend, a man abducted his bride from a neighboring village. He was then required to take her into hid...
Then you agree that you should keep me. With the smug satisfaction of an argument won, he propped his shoulder against the stall door. Her eyes picked him over as if he were a carved goose on a table....
They’d take Nina’s hair tonight, leaving only enough to cover her scalp—the k.d. lang look, Jezebel explained. Paige would weave the hair, strand by strand, into a wig modeled after Nina’s natural loo...
This was the House that Jack Built, she thought, hearing the singsong rhythm of the old children’s story in her head. And this was the wife who lived in the house that Jack built. And there was the mi...
Why did joy bring the same tears as sadness? Why did the throat and chest ache with fire, regardless? Was it because, deep down, everyone knew it was fragile and ephemeral? Did the tears come from the...
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! —Jane Austen (1798)
Wishful thinking is a powerful force.
You can't rewind life or undo things.
You cannot make a man love me any more than you can keep a flower from turning its face to the sun. Nature has endowed us with certain urges. That’s why we speak of the magic of love.
You mustn’t touch me. Very slowly, he lowered his hand. You need to be touched, Caitlin MacBride. You need it very badly. She girded herself with denial. Even if it were so, I would not need it from a...
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