Family myths are cherished by the people who--however unwittingly--have brought them into being. In my own situation, what my father was really saying to me during that last unfortunate phone call was that I had shattered our family's myth: the myth ...
What have you to trade for my silence?" ... He opened his mouth to beckon the men, but Eleri moved like lightning. With her right arm restrained, she couldn't cut him. However, her weapon of choice caught him completely off-guard. Her lips sealed to ...
The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in the assurance that they could live a life of their own as "humanistic" ethics, has...
You ain’t old yet but when you get old, all the women in the village start to look down on you when they find out you want to do something other than sweep the kitchen or cut up vegetables. Had this big starch mango tree when I was small. Anytime I...
Korben Dallas: [shoves a bag into Ruby's hands] You guard this with your life, or you're gonna look like this guy here! You green? DJ Ruby Rhod: G-green. [cut to the President's office, where every word is being heard over the radio, transmitted gala...
Colette: [to Linguini] How do you tell how good bread is without tasting it? Not the smell, not the look, but the *sound* of the crust. Listen. [she presses the bread between her hands] Colette: Oh, symphony of crackle. Only great bread sound this wa...
EV-9D9: Ah, new acquisitions! You are a protocol droid, are you not? C-3PO: I am C-3PO, human/cyborg... EV-9D9: [cuts him off] Yes or no will do. C-3PO: Umm... yes. EV-9D9: How many languages do you speak? C-3PO: I am fluent in over six million forms...
Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.
So much of writing is done alone in a room in sweatpants, with only the Internet for company.
All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
The past was filling the room like a tide of whispers.
This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.
Sometimes the silence is the loudest thing in the room.
Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?
He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.
If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you
If you can't talk about it, you can't change it.
