My mom,Sarah used to tell me that you could be anywhere when you life begins but you wouldn't know it until it changed everything you thought you knew
There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.
Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.
But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.
Moroi shied from the sunlight but as I watched Sydney, I knew without a doubt that humans had been made for the sun.
We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves...
She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.
She knew what he had in mind. He'll propose in Scotland on my birthday. There was no doubt as to what her answer would be.
A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.
The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.
All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?
I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
She'd created her own hell, and now that she had learned to control her fear, she knew how to create her own paradise.
They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.
But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.
Here's what Mike knew about kids: They did stupid stuff. Pretty much all of them.
Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.
Why bother? Maybe the world’s not worth saving.” She knew he meant it, too. Those lifeless eyes spoke volumes.
The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was not, yet, to be dead.
She knew that she must sit quietly and patiently and, like her beloved butterflies, eventually he would come to rest.
Seriously, what is the purpose? Maybe I’d feel better about walking around speaking fluent jive if I knew there was a reason for it.
