I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
His brain and his heart knew this, but he couldn’t stop himself, and the razor of his conscience lent the undeniable thrill of pain to the act.
Both the two of us knew it. We watched the lie go up big and slow between us, then it burst like a spit bubble. They always burst before too long.
He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty.
Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it.
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.
If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.
Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.
I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed
I knew in that moment, I would never love anyone in my life the way I loved Evan Mathews.
Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew how easy it was to cheat the tests.
The world he thought he knew had become an odd thing, twisting time and purpose. But it had remained an unfair universe in the end.
I drink coffee like I urinate—alone, or in large groups. Sometimes I wish I knew the secret handshake.
I wrote a zen koan once about love, but it didn’t make any sense. That’s how I knew I had accurately described love.
I fell in love with her the moment she was late, though neither one of us knew it at the time because she hadn’t arrived yet.
I was naked under his gaze. Skin was just that: skin. But to see your soul stripped, laid bare for the eyes of someone you barely knew-that was terrifying.
I was spinning—from the kiss, the alcohol or the lack of air, I wasn’t sure, but I knew I needed to pull away if only just to breath.
There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in each, but self-contained. No one else knew. No one else cared.
..when the first rubber ball smacked her in the head and made her brains rattle in her skull, she knew that something about this dodgeball game was different
I knew I couldn’t trust my illogical heart, and that meant I had to do everything in my power to stay away from him so I wouldn’t have to.
