I don’t know how to dance!” she said. His arms tightened around her when she tried to pull away. “Then just let me hold you.
She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.
His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter how big. I have no choice but to smile back.
I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.
Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!
...but it was just her mind playing cruel tricks, and she tried to push away the irrational thought that Richard was still in there, waiting for someone to save his life.
There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can’t trust anyone, they can’t tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.
I am you, Umasi, and I am weak." the shadow spun around and began walking away. "In the end, either you will conquer me…or I will conquer you.
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.
Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade away.
In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.
Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.
But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security.
The Bill of Rights wasn’t enacted to give us any rights. It was enacted so the Government could not take away from us any rights that we already had.
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.
Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When the ball of steel is rubbed away by the friction, eternity will not even have begun.
Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.
Problem is, the bathroom pass can't help you escape life. It's still there when you come out. Problems and crap don't go away hiding in the can.
This connection we have isn't going away, it's only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be.
I didn’t want to cry in front of you.” He wiped away the tears with the pad of his thumb. “I want you to cry in front of me.
Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I’m not a pirate, and she’s not my captured princess.
