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So who do you want to be?” I smiled, resting my head against his chest. “I’m not sure yet, but I’m looking forward to finding out.
I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.
But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.
'Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.'
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization
My world, my world... How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness. - Wicket Witch of the North
Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.
I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.
I've been very, very successful at building probably the most recognizable, physically recognizable brand in personal development.
It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls." "There are always walls." I say.
I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.
Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.
So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.
This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates.
It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.
In other words, my pot doesn't work?" "It doesn't have a pulse," he says. "I have a pulse." Kimmie offers her wrist. "Wanna check?
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Freedom, which is an aspect of health, remains impossible as long as we perceive our bodies as a complete definition of ourselves.
I trust that no loving thought goes unnoticed, even when I do not see immediate gratitude or behavior changes in the other person.
Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.
When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.
If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.
One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.
A cat is better than you are, more honest, more graceful, smarter for her size, better coordinated, and infinitely more beautiful.
It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.
Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.
Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.
Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word.
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
Mistakes are expensive. Mistakes are good, because we can learn from them. I must be a slow learner because I repeat most of mine.
I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?
Whenever I watch any kind of competition, my immediate reaction when they call out the name of the winner is to look at the loser.
I've never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can't be fixed by a conversation
Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn't feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before.
"I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men".
One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.
I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.
I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.
The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.
I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.
Real cowboys wear Wranglers. End of story. Levi's may be chic and trendy, but if you work cattle for a living, you wear Wranglers.
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.
'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'
No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.