Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on t...
Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach Hedge, which was maybe not a situation a caring girlfriend should put him in. Nor was...
Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.
And it was kind of funny to see all these professional fighters unwilling to get within a mile of the female. Then again, if you wanted to survive doing the work they did, accurate risk assessment was...
And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurt...
All this last day Frodo had not spoken, but had walked half-bowed, often stumbling, as if his eyes no longer saw the way before his feet. Sam guessed that among all their pains he bore the worst, the...
Ah, men understand friendship more than we woman.
After counting all the sheep in the worldI enumerate the wildebeests, snails,camels, skylarks, etc.,then I add up all the zoos and aquariums,country by country.By early light I am asleepin a nightmare...
A red-gold glow burst suddenly across the enchanted sky above them as an edge of dazzling sun appeared over the sill of the nearest window. The light hit both of their faces at the same time, so that...
A raindrop strikes the lawn, sending up a tiny plume of dust. Others follow, a barrage of dusty explosions bursting all around me. The leaves of the banyan tree rebound from their impact. The parrots...
A citizen is no greater than his ideology,no cleverer than his intellect,no nobler than his aspirations, and no stronger than his opinions.A nation is no greater than its consciousness,no richer than...
A Sanskrit word appeared in the paragraph: ANTEVASIN. It means, ‘one who lives at the border.’ In ancient times, this was a literal description. It indicated a person who had left the bustling center...
¿Qué te parecería alquilar una lancha?-No esaría mal, pero tenemos el problema del ruido. [...]-Podríamos acercarnos a remo-sugirió, yo le respondí con una mirada.-Hmmm... Jenks, no es un lago, es el...
Fragmento de El fantasma de Harlot(una historia novelada de la CIA), Norman Mailer ,1991)En muchos vecindarios, sin embargo, las calles son pacíficas y fantasmales. La otra parte del mundo podrá avanz...
Whispered a familiar voice.Thwack. He stumbled, Liz behind him, a sturdy branch raised.She hit him again, a home-run swing between the shoulders, and he went down with an oomph and an oath. She recogn...
My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.
In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souff...
People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in a day. If you change Wednesday, then you change Thursday. Pretty soon it's a w...
I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record.
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