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Who are you? What’s your name?” “Mi Mi.” “Do you hear that thumping noise?” “No.” “It must be here somewhere.” Tin Win knelt down. Now it was nearly next to his ear. “I hear it more and more distinctly. A soft pulsing. You reall...

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

He liked however the open shutters; he opened everywhere those Mrs. Muldoon had closed, closing them as carefully afterwards, so that she shouldn't notice: he liked--oh this he did like, and above all in the upper rooms!--the sense of the hard silver...

The Jolly Corner

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God...

Mere Christianity

The addict's reliance on the drug to reawaken her dulled feelings is no adolescent caprice. The dullness is itself a consequence of an emotional malfunction not of her making; the internal shutdown of vulnerability. Vulnerability is our susceptibilit...

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

You, my reader, who see me close, wonder about my heartbeats and measure my words, you my close friend who know my eyes and the home of their prose, you, my only lover, who always move my life, my poetry's pace and rhyme,... I can not disclose the sh...

Soar

Men are easily threatened. And whenever a man is threatened, when he becomes uncomfortable in places within himself that he does not understand, he naturally retreats into an arena of comfort or competence, or he dominates someone or something in ord...

Larry Crabb

Kate McCallister: Did I turn off the coffee? Peter McCallister: No... I did. Kate McCallister: Did you lock up? Peter McCallister: Yeah. Kate McCallister: Did we set the timers on the lights? Peter McCallister: Yeah. Kate McCallister: Did you close t...

Home Alone

Kasper Gutman: You're a close-mouthed man? Sam Spade: Nah, I like to talk. Kasper Gutman: Better and better. I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judicio...

The Maltese Falcon

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

Canada

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

The Cave

When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.

Divided & Conquered

There are vampires. They are real, they are of our time, and they are here, close by, stalking us as we sleep...

Dracula

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

We spent our lives making livings.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road.

Firework

Not everyone got a close family. Not everyone needed one.

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

...[T]he three greatest works are those of , and . These are closely followed by the works of and .

How to Speak and Write Correctly

There's nothing wrong with the fire.. if you don't get too close. - Patch

Hush, Hush

A blanket could be used to travel to exotic places. Just close your eyes and see for yourself. 

Blanket

But then I remembered: the universe was closed, and so very small. There was really nowhere else to go.

Blindsight

And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.

The Book of Lost Things