Quotes of: Chill-out Keyword

Why no for two deer, but an for two monkeys? Brother Quang says no one knows. So much for rules! Whoever invented English should be bitten by a snake.

Inside Out & Back Again

Sometimes things just slip past you, into your hands and out through your fingers. In my half-in/half-out state I began to wonder if that could happen to people, too.

I Was a Lid

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Out of the firelight everything was black and silver, black island, rocks and trees carved cleanly out of the sky and silver river with a flashing light rippling back and forth along the lip of the fall.

The Inheritors

Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not

If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

When you fall in love with someone you treasure their quirks as much as anything else. Flaws become unique marks of character, things you'd miss if they weren't there.

Just Went Out for Milk

Life is about balance. It's not about forgetting the bad times or escaping them. It's about creating enough good times to outweigh the bad.

Just Went Out for Milk

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. -- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

Just After Sunset

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

The Return of the King

He slid the photo out and raised it. The sun washed out any distinguishable characteristics. All except her eyes. He didn’t need a picture to remember those. As turquoise as the waters near Cozumel, and just as warm.

Return to Me

I remember the fire, it burns bright, always around me. I close my eyes, and tears stream out. The tides of the past seize me, bear me out to sea.

Sinful Folk

For the first time in my life, I was in a shoot-out. A real, honest-to-goodness shoot-out with a bad guy. And, apparently, we both sucked.

Second Grave on the Left

Are you driving this slow because you have no idea where we're going, or because you're hoping we jump out of the car & put ourselves out of our misery?

Never Fade

I guess whoever built and buried that IED out there in the desert will never know how far that blast traveled. But all things ripple out, cause shrapnel.

The Killing Woods

Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired.

Looking for Alaska

Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them.

Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach out to you.

The Lucky Place