If you feel like a nearly-drowned rat that’s been dragged through the mud, all twisted up inside your mother’s borrowed, prized quilt, having been tossed about by gale force winds that managed to entangle you in barbed wire one-thousand miles fro...
When I reach out, you take my hand. When I smile, you mirror the expression. When I triumph, you glory as if it were your own. When I fail, you point to the light at the end. When I need, you tenderly provide. When I cry, you kiss away my tears. Wh...
There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied—who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy. It seems almost poi...
Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be. I notice when the sky is blue. I smile down at children. I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor. I quietly...
" "Oh, man in the moon, send an evening star to wink at my dreary eyes, and I shall make a wish for a peaceful world that spins with no more lies. Oh, man in the moon, send the night's cool breeze to lull my leery heart, and I shall cast my fears to ...
Time and again the sun sets like a bedimming curtain before my eyes, taking with it all illumination, warmth, and color. I am overwhelmed by night and the monsters that lurk in shadows of despair. But alas, stars twinkle from afar, shedding the t...
Calvera: Last month we were in San Juan. Rich town. Sit down. Rich town, much blessed by God. Big church. Not like here - little church, priest comes twice a year. BIG one. You'd think we'd find gold candlesticks. Poor box filled to overflowing. Do y...
I know a lot of things about you, Garth...And I'm rooting for you anyways.
.. the truth is what you can't see but are certain of anyway.
Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of .
With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!
Whether someone does right by you or wrong by you thank them anyway.
I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.
It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.
(Everyday life is like a sack: with holes. And you carry it anyway.)
Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway.
Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family.
I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.
But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.
