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No other ethnic group has even come close to matching the abilities and accomplishments of Jews.

The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code

As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.

In Search of King Solomon's Mines

Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.

Smoke and Mirrors

She opened one eye. “The goddess Artemis is going to talk to the supreme god Zeus … about me?” “Yup.” She closed her eyes again. “I’m so not okay.

Sunburn

...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understand and I believe you.

A Separate Peace

It’d been a long time since they’d been together, but as close as they were physically, they’d never been so far apart in every other way.

Snowbound with the Soldier

This put me very close to Jay and it was as uncomfortable as it was mystifying. It was uncomfortable because I still wasn’t sure I liked him all that much. It was mystifying because his intense stares were unlike anything I’d ever experienced; th...

Shifting Shadows

If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

And being here like this, so suddenly close to him is enough to make her lightheaded. It's a feeling like falling.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

There was a profound silence, abruptly broken by an enormously loud rumble from George's stomach. Plaster didn't actually fall from the ceiling, but it was close.

The Screaming Staircase

I was the silent and ever present figure in your life...but you.” I kissed the back of her hand softly and closed my eyes. "You've always been the meaning of mine.

Severance

The sky had lightened when they got up from the sand. They shook the blanket before wrapping it around them both. Cuddling close they entered the hotel, shivering as they stood in the elevator.

Tristan's Destiny

Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness…

Outlander

My discontent has accumulated over the past months, searching for a leak in the dam I’ve constructed to separate my true feelings from the situation closing in around me.

Outside In

One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.

A Philosophy of Boredom

When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.

Poems about Nature, Grief and Childhood

One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.

Perfect Chemistry

How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

The Price of Dick

They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.

The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

You're something, alright." I laughed into his bare chest, my eyes closing. "I'm your something..." His voice trailed off into a wisper as I drifted off.

The Perfect Game

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you you are .

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration