They did not use the sonic stunners but the foray gun, the ancient weapon that fires a set of metal fragments in a burst. They shot to kill him. He was dying when I got to him, sprawled and twisted away from his skis that stuck up out of the snow, hi...
Nightingale" Did I wound you, mutilate. Take away your voice. Did I cut something from you. Leave you locked in silence? This is what you do: you sing. Every part of you. Your locks of hair sing, your eyes, your hands, your smile. If I listen closely...
I have seen the face of sorrow She looks away in the distance Across all these bridges From whence I came And those spans, trussed and arched Hold up our lives as we go back again To how we thought then To how we thought we thought then I have seen s...
[Clayton] Christensen had seen dozens of companies falter by going for immediate payoffs rather than long-term growth, and he saw people do the same thing. In three hours at work, you could get something substantial accomplished, and if you failed to...
Make no mistake,' He says, 'if you let me, I will make you perfect. The moment you put yourself in My hands, that is what you are in for. Nothing less, or other, than that. You have free will, and if you choose, you can push Me away. But if you do no...
I believe that sometimes, the moment you say goodbye could be as painful as a lifetime worth of pain that you can experience while living with the memories of your loved ones. I couldn’t stop myself from hallucinating about all those things that co...
[the Shape is lurking by a bush on the sidewalk] Laurie: Annie, look! Annie Brackett: Look where? I don't see anything. Laurie: That guy who passed us in the car before, the one you yelled at! Annie Brackett: Subtle, isn't he? [marches over to the bu...
There is a phantom that flies with the banshees. It strangles the throat, pierces the heart and consumes the body with pain that only time and tears can expel.
He continued to stare out the window. "I meant what I said before. You need to walk away, Pidge. God knows I can't walk away from you.
Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.
[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.
The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the couldless sky. There was nowhere you could hide in such emptiness.
So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
I sleep with the lights on now. Not because I’m afraid of the dark, but because I like to keep the night as far away as I can.
All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.
Why is it," she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?
Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.
