Do you love me?" I asked gravely. The corners of his lips tugged up ever so slightly. "Love is such a mortal word
But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.
No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.
Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.
This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for the rest of the afternoon.
Maybe some people were destined to be alone. But, I reminded myself, you're never alone if you read.
love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark
Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude.
If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
I can't say I'm not guilty of age discrimination when it comes to animals. Like most people I've walked into a shelter more than a few times and a magnetic force has pulled me toward those fluffy little puppies in the corner cage.
I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.
I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scient...
It's so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. - and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio, and you don't even know this person, and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow...
...Blakewood had a collection of miniature furniture with Scotty dogs painted on it, arranged on a semicircular shelf int he corner. Yeah. He was queer.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
Yeah, I was thinking about taking one of those showers where you huddle in the corner fully clothed and cry," Archer offered.
To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. "The Distant Music of the Hounds," 1954
Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow.
that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.
This play is dedicated to the memory of , The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of the sky.
I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.
