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Cooking wasn’t so bad, I thought. In fact, it was a lot like sex. Sometimes it didn’t seem like such a good idea in the beginning, but then after you got into it …

Hot Six

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

Home to Holly Springs

Confidence, darling." He leans across the table and touches a finger to my cheek. "You could learn something from me, you know.

Isla and the Happily Ever After

I drink coffee the way other men put on their pants—only after they’ve paid the hooker.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

. . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues and practice them, you will never grow to be more than dwarfs.

Interior Castle

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...

I Served the King of England

I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off.

Invisible Monsters

Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.

Island Magic

After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.

The Infernals

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

The Imperfect Paradise

To be the other woman is to be a season that is always about to end, when the air is flowered with jasmine and peach, and the weather day after day is flawless, and the forecast is hurricane.

The Imperfect Paradise

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

Iris And Ruby

They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.

I'll Give You the Sun

It was right and wrong both. Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity, joy and heartbreak.

I'll Give You the Sun

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

I Am Legend and Other Stories

During the century after , it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.

Indiscrete Thoughts

We cannot carve or forcibly preserve or cultivate belief. If it will grow, it grows as we do - mostly after we have fallen

Invisible Tender

I had a dream about you last night... shortly after I woke up screaming in terror.

I Had a Dream About You

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.

Just One Day

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...

John Mayer - Battle Studies