Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before.
I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it. Once not long before we had been boys and girls, and soon we would be middle-aged, thickening with rueful pleasure toward the thin...
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to b...
I had a dream about you. The Tuesdays were outside of my castle demanding that I hand you over to them. They weren’t seeking justice—they were out for vengeance. You were Wendy Wednesday, the last of The Wednesdays, and this feud went back a long...
The battles may last for a long time, perhaps even years. There are powerful forces on both sides, and the war is important to both armies. It's not a battle of good against evil. It's a war between forces that are fighting for the balance of power, ...
He'd searched every corner of his mind looking for ways to avoid a rendezvous with Chico. In the last twenty years, Slade had come a long way from the ghetto orphanage where he'd grown up, but the only way he could help Maria was to get in touch with...
Hans Gruber: Theo, are we on schedule? Theo: One more to go then it's up to you. And you better be right, because it looks like this last one is going to take a miracle. Hans Gruber: It's Christmas, Theo. It's the time of miracles. So be of good chee...
There is no flower that lasts ten days and no might lasts ten years.
The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.
Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
-Speaking about Vaccinations - "If you accept the truth after the fact, the pain will last a life time.
Appreciate the moment of a first kiss; it may be the last time you own your heart.
A relationship has to be nourished with passion, and built upon the foundation of trust, to be one that last a lifetime.
We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
