I could tell he wanted the best for me. Of course, he assumed that would be getting out. Everyone always thought that, not of what we had to go back to, at home. Maybe our parents had thrown away our mattresses. Maybe they'd told our siblings we'd be...
At the high school a pretty girl strolled across the parking lot to her black stallion, let her cigarette dangle from her lips while she put on her helmet, adjusted her goggles. Throwing a slender white leg over the side she jacked her little backsid...
Gilbert Huph: Look at me when I'm talking to you, Parr! Bob: [looking out the window] That man out there, he needs help! Gilbert Huph: Do not change the subject, Bob! We're discussing your attitude! Bob: *He* is getting *mugged*! Gilbert Huph: Well l...
Andy Dufresne: Red. If you ever get out of here, do me a favor. Red: Sure, Andy. Anything. Andy Dufresne: There's a big hayfield up near Buxton. You know where Buxton is? Red: Well, there's... there's a lot of hayfields up there. Andy Dufresne: One i...
Warden Samuel Norton: [after Andy escapes] Well? Red: Well what? Warden Samuel Norton: I see you two all the time, you're thick as thieves, you are. He musta said *something*. Red: Honest, Warden, not a word. Warden Samuel Norton: [frustrated] Lord, ...
To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
His Magnificence - Your Manifestation.I will make of thee a great nation
I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?
Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
With timid curiosity, I asked, “what do you mean the old bodies get reused?
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
You have a college degree? You can barely talk.
Eat your heart out. Oh, wait. You can’t. It’s not organic.
Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself.
Babamın bilgiççe söylediği ve benim de bilgiççe onayladığım şu sözünü unutmaktan halen korku duyarım: bazı temel incelikler dünyaya adaletsiz dağıtılmıştır.
Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.
I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
