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I wasn’t sure anymore what made a good marriage. There had to be love, of course, but there were so many different kinds of love. And clearly, some love was more enduring than others.
He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.
I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control.
Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows New York. He doesn’t know Alicante—
There was nothing wrong with fire … as long as you didn’t stand too close. Something to keep in mind.
All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.
The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.
People come and go, in and out of each other’s lives like it’s nothing. So I don’t know how/why this should be a big deal.
Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.
In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.
Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to help?
I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use.
She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that can’t replace / the version of me that I hold inside / when lying with you, lying with you, lying with you.
The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?
How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Why?” “Oh, stop overanalyzing it.
The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.
While it did smash, breaking a bottle over someone’s head requires a lot more force than movies had led me to believe.
Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.
sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .
Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. “All right. You need to vent, so I’ll listen to you vent. But do it quickly, because Rydstorm was about to plunder Sabine with his thick, hard—
They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town,
Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.
He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? Harry Blakemoor died with his tie on. I like it, Larry.
You keep out of my bed, ” said Danny, for he knew that Joe Portagee had come to stay. The way he sat in a chair and crossed his knees had an appearance of permanence.
Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil." "A which?" "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They date back two million years.
A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.
this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others,
virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.
These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth,
I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain, " said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.
They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.
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