Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.
Duty and conscience were, for Theodora, attributes which belonged properly to Girl Scouts.
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
I totally bought you as a girl," says Marisol. "I'll double check with Frances later, but by the sounds of things, you seem to have no balls.
We aren't haunted by the dead, but by the impossible reach of history. By how unknowable these others are to us, how unfathomable we'd be to them.
No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.
The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.
He was willing to pay her to hang around his house and paint Piper's fingernails? It sounded as easy as Britney Spears.
The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge.
My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?
Here there was no shelter for his soul. There were no houses for a home. It was all a wilderness. It was all a battlefield. It was wild, without a friend. It was all a broken battlefield.
All pomp and show.” Anjali’s glare at the house would’ve exploded bricks if she’d had superhuman powers. “A fat cow needs a big barn.
Tamburlaine's house seemed more a place where books kept their people than where people kept their books.
...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.
If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.
What you love, you must love all the harder because someday it will be gone.
Bricks could be used like trophies. And if we give them to everyone, just for participating, then collectively we could build a big House of Emptiness.
One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
A brick could be used in place of a parachute, and a blanket could be used as a permanent wall of a house. In both cases, the skydiver and home dweller would ideally be a politician.
Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold.
