When I was in Piazza di Spagna, in Rome, I watched (along with others) how many locals came to drink water from the fountain there. The people beside me said to each other "Oh my goodness, how disgusting, people just drink water from anywhere," while...
My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every...
She'd taken one look at him the first time they'd met and it was like her body had just erupted into a ball of heat and hunger.
...and I know -I just know- you can remind me what it feels like to have someone look at me and love me with wanting me to be something else.
You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry
You ask me, I'd guess heaven and hell look pretty much the same," I replied. "Only in hell, everything is just a little out of reach.
Miranda looked up at him through a haze of desire, her will consumed by a fierce crackling heat, just like the dry twigs of the old woman's fire.
I can't look at you. I don't want to talk to you. I just want my things. I want to go home.-Blaire Wynn
Her eyes felt swollen, and she knew she looked a mess, but sometimes...sometimes the emotions were just too big to hold.
And I know, when things look the worst is when something new and wonderful is about to happen, if we can just hold on.
I love the way he looks in his uniform, all man with just a hint of the boy I fell for all those years ago.
Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor.
Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
I put my hand next to his shoulder on the door frame, not touching, but real close. “Look, Blondie. I’m not asking you to bottom, just to fucking navigate.
And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.
A brick could be used as a measurement of time. Yes, just think how stylish you’ll look with a brick duct taped to your wrist!
What seems impossible is always possible. It's just the way you look at things that will make the difference!
Just in case you’re wondering,” Gage says, breaking the silence, “this alliance of ours doesn’t mean I like you.” “Feeling’s mutual.” Julian tosses him a disdainful look.
