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He’s a war mage. They’re almost impossible to kill.” He scowled. “Even on purpose.
Life changes, people come and go and seasons never last. Karen kingsbury # Leaving
The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.
If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.
Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.
But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.
[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.
It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.
But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.
I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
Those who cry to be young again should think twice before they seal those prayers.
Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.
I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.
Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.
But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.
I used to try to write around the edges, but now I try to walk a more direct line.
At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time.
I do try to live every day as if it were my last, and it has worked for me so far.
there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter!
We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?
Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.
Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.
I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.
Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.
My fridge is full of super foods to keep my brain operating at maximum efficiency!
There is still a wildness inside people that we've spent millennia trying to tame.
Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.
Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.
Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.
Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.
Every time a horse let you up onto its back, it’s giving you its life. Every time.
It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.
A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?
Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.
These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.
Now, she could't help but think he was just a big version of a jealous boy friend.