Quotes of: Just-walking Keyword

Caroline leaned forward. “Now explain to me why this is perfectly normal and dressing up in Regency gear is not.” He blinked. “Finley, because the Civil War is history.” “So is Regency England.” She laughed, eyes bright. “Just because w...

Emma, Mr. Knightley, and Chili-Slaw Dogs

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, ...

Every Day

We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn’t cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly ‘unnatural’ way, so that the mind cl...

Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment

Being heartbroken doesn’t mean you stop feeling. Just the opposite — it means you feel it all more. With your heart in fragments, every sensation is sharper, every emotion more acute. Your feelings are enhanced, like a blind man with an impeccabl...

Erasing Faith

The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe. Fads are orderly. Food carts and fires aren't. Feeding the world could be a delicious mess, full of diverse fl...

An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies

Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to d...

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

It would never have crossed her mind spontaneously that somebody might actually need silence. That silence helps you to go inward, that anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence: this, I think, is not so...

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Respect doesn’t have to be shiny. It just needs to be wearable. Would you be so kind as to hold my jockstrap while I stir your hot coffee?


At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I think people over the age of 6’2” look great. Just look at me! I was born in less than 19.82 inches.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Too bad Americans can’t export Awesome, because I have boxes and boxes of the stuff just lying around in my attic.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Cap’n just jumped on the bed and says we should take a nap. And who am I to argue?

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I’m not good at talking. Can’t I just nod my way through a conversation? It’s better than nodding off.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I need a Caution: Slippery When Wet sign, because I just spilled my ego all over the floor.


At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Knowing where you come from is just as important as knowing who you aren’t. You aren’t your own clone.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

It's because you weren't in love," Mary said. "When you're in love it's beautiful. When you're not it's just dirty filthy sex. Loveless sex has no true spiritual meaning deep inside your soul. But love makes everything totally cool. Love is God's spe...

Execution of Innocence

Turtle is putting seaweed all over me. It is the big turtle. She is so big that she can regurgitate seaweed over me. It comes out of her mouth like coming from a spoud of a fountain, which is actually a very nice feeling. It is not sticky at all. It ...

Ema's Odyssey: Shamanism for Healing and Spiritual Knowledge

I've spent so much time these last years wondering what I'm supposed to be. A wife? A lover? A celibate? An Italian? A glutton? A traveler? An artist? A Yogi? But I'm not any of these things, at least not completely. And I'm not Crazy Aunt Liz, eithe...

Eat, Pray, Love

This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift - or curse, perhaps - of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're ...

Eat, Pray, Love

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences...

Eat, Pray, Love

Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your langu...

Eat, Pray, Love

Simon stood up and said the first thing that popped into his mind. "I just wanted to tell you that we all really enjoyed that beef stew they saved for dinner. You should serve that again." Dean Penhallow gave him an odd look. " those weren't beets, S...

The Evil We Love