Seek the tarnish and you shall find
Now they were inclined to only creep instead of fly, and smile instead of laugh.
Love changed all that was ordinary into something giddy, powerful, drunken, enchanted.
Love . . . I put so much faith in it. Truth . . . I kept believing it falls always from the lips of the one you love and trust the most. Faith . . . it’s all bound up to love and trust. Where does one...
Look at me, she said, throwing wide her arms, appearing vulnerable, beautiful, helpless. Do you know what I am? I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her...
It’s not that I’m afraid to die, it’s only the road to death that terrifies me, for sometimes it can be so drawn out.
It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window a...
In the gloom of early evening Chris spoke my name hesitatingly. No more, just my name. I didn’t answer, I didn’t need him—I didn’t need anybody. He had let me down by not understanding, and I didn’t n...
If you work to obtain your goal, and realize from the very beginning that nothing valuable comes easily, and still forge ahead, without a doubt you’ll reach your goal, whatever it is.
I was fourteen years old--and that is an age when a girl just begins to feel her power over men. And I knew I was what most boys and men considered beautiful, and I guess, in a way, I was ripe for lov...
I realize we lose our innocence in many ways, the most painful being when we realize those who are supposed to love us and care for us more than anything, really care for themselves and their own plea...
I am not at all the kind who can forget the tarnish on the reverse side of the brightest coin.
How I wished I could someday walk with a man like that--a man like Malcolm. But it was not to be. It seemed God was deaf to my hopes and prayers for love. I sighed. As I turned back to my book, I real...
He estado demasiado tiempo en la medicina para no saber que la justicia no esta distribuida con equidad
Habíamos perdido a nuestro padre, nuestro hogar, nuestros amigos y nuestras cosas, y aquella noche dejé de creer que Dios era el juez perfecto, de modo que también perdí a Dios, en cierto modo.
El pelo crece donde tiene que crecer, de modo que lo mejor será que lo dejes en paz y no pienses más en tener el cuerpo liso como el de una niña pequeña y te des cuenta de que ese pelo es atractivo.
Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough?
Dear Mrs. Winslow,How well I remember the summer of your honeymoon. It was a wonderful summer, so refreshingly pleasant in the mountains in a locked room with windows that were never opened.Congratula...
Dance, Ballerina, dance, and do your pirouetteIn rhythm with your aching heart,Dance, Ballerina, dance, you mustn't once forgetA dancer has to dance the part,Once you said his love must wait its turn,...
Come and greet me with kisses if you love me.