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Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.
He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.
Making reading an enjoyable activity for children is a challenge. So I ensure that I write in a way that is fun for children to read.
Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.
America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones.
I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly." "I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper." "Apparently I am.
She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart.
It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.
When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather.
love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.
I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else
I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.
I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice
I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.
who is the love of my life? Maybe I don't have one. Maybe it's not love at all. But if it's not love, then what is it? I wish I knew.
If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.
What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.
“I don't like the look of it at all,” said the King: “however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.” “I'd rather not,” the Cat remarked.
You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!
No, I call. Come back. I'm here, he says. But I can't see. It's too bright. You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.
I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.
Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die
It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed to do it again.
I considered calling Grace to ask her what I should say to a reticent suicidal werewolf, but I'd left my phone somewhere. Car, maybe.
Really, Rachel looked like a sun, bright and exuding energy, holding us two moons in a parallel orbit by the sheer force of her will.
democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.
I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.
Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.
It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.