The pains in my heart don't go away these days. The heartaches are chronic; they layer on top of each other from one day to the next, thickening like a callus.
I believe the Lord has chosen me to spread His word through my words and who am I to question His plans for me?
Husband: a man with hopes of being a lover who settles for being a provider, causing his wife to grow suspicious of her depleting jewelry box.
Seeing a brightly-colored box, I asked, What’s that? She said nothing. So I said, “Ah, so that’s what silence looks like, huh?”
If everyone in America started mailing empty boxes, we could boost productivity, profitability, and employment. Think like a politician.
A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal.
Eventually, you must stop running to something or from something and embrace where you are. Otherwise you’ll never embrace anything.
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.
…for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown
We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.
I heard my grandfathers voice. What do they think-- the storms will never come? You build a house on the sand, the sand shifts eventually... Remember that.
Madison answered. “I said, ‘The Queen thinks the King’s a pussy for sending her to retrieve me. I dare him to catch me if he can.
The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself.
...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.
That’s not making love; it’s getting laid. There’s a world of difference between the two. Settling for less is cheating yourself.” He looked at her steadily. “It’s worth the wait.
When Matthew merely stared at him, Jackson reached into the weapon box and pulled out a sheathed machete, handing it to the boy. Matthew laughed and dropped it.
Monsieur, you must be mad! Box Five can never be had For money, love or the world ...
I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.
She grew broccoli, and I grew dentures. We were perfect for each other. Our love disappeared into each other like a box of toothpicks.
All books are coloring books, if you are in possession of a childlike imagination, and a box of markers.
I want to merge oven mitts with boxing gloves, so I could effectively, and safely, fight fires. After all, fire fighters make better lovers.
