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I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky.
Do not make the mistake of thinking that the soul is inside you, because if the soul is inside you, you will be outside it.
Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match.com, but, hey. It sounded good.
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.
Birds fly Over The Rainbow. Why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. Who are you, and why do you seek me?
People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.
The girl I’ve been looking for my entire life. Alex resisted the urge to throw Seb off the balcony and see if he could fly.
I want.." she said, knowing what she wanted, feeling pulled toward it, arching toward it, but hardly knowing how to say it.
When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.
And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.
Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.
Those lips looked tasty, especially when they said things like ' i jumped up every time someone knocked, hoping it's be you
It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.
Most people don't want to be saved. Besides, if you keep bailing everybody out, they'll never learn to paddle on their own.
For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.
i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.
The reason you can never go home again isn't necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same.
I need him to know that I came for him. I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him.
Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.
What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.
What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.
I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.
The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.
I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.
Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.
It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.
Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home.
I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.
This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.
There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.
Always and everywhere, the only serious political issue is what the state should and should not do. All the rest distracts.
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays.
When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!' Christ what an image.
I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.
Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
Perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.
It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.
By learning to control the tenor and flow of your electromagnetic energy, you are learning to take control of your destiny.
The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.