This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.

Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.

Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin.

To understand history, ' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

How history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws.

Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

One incredible tool to accomplish bringing a product to the public is to put a face on TV shows, movies, and the actors in them by using good PR.

After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.

People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.

There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.