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I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)
We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.
You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.
Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.
Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?
At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.
The feud with Jerry Lawler was one of the best feuds I ever had. He was the perfect heel and kept his heat. People hated him.
A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement gets clouded. —Abbot Saxtus
Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.
I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.
I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
Moving is hard. Staying is easy. Logistically speaking, at least. And this is true whether you're doing or undoing something.
God hath his mysteries of grace, Ways that we cannot tell, He hides them deep, like the secret sleep Of him he loved so well.
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.
Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.
Millions of people with respiratory diseases have relied on oxygen equipment, delivered to their homes, to help them breathe.
A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
I drink tea pretty much continuously at a rate of around 1 imperial pint/hour, which sort of enforces screen/keyboard breaks.
The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.
Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.
Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.
He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.
The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.
What's exquisitely weird about the Donald Trump/Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel formulation is that this isn't even a case about race.
Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.
When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.
Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.
I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.
I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.
All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.
I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.
I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.
A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.
We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.
I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.