Don’t be stupider than you need to be, I remind myself. Remember Calease? The last glowing girl you talked to tried to kill you.
I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy.
Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.
Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days).
We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.
I had some good sex last night. How do I know it was good? Because I was participating, and not just a passive spectator and photographer.
People tell me I have a winning smile, but it’s just not true. My grin took silver at last year’s Facial Expression Olympics.
This night felt like a last hurrah, like we could blaze our brightest, at the apex of our insane adolescence. This was our Mardi Gras before the dark days of Lent.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love." (Sophocles) by Adam Harford, Duke of Harford, from the last page of "Sophie's Salvation
There’s a star in the sky that refuses to stay put, and Hadley realizes it’s actually a plane, that just last night, that star was them.
I've spent a large portion of the last 40 years hunting Dragons because of you. Be flattered, disturbed... Whatever floats your boat. Tiberius of Triad C.O.A series
The months roll by like wheels on a wheelchair. Pretty soon it’ll be July. Feels like just last month it was May.
The blank sheet stares up at me, its emptiness like a slap. Those were the last words Ginny ever wrote before she and her family were murdered.
That's what any committed patriot would do: Fight to the last. Defeat your enemy at any cost; then hope you have enough left to rebuild.
Go ahead, look at the message. You know you want to.” “No, it doesn’t matter.” “Then why do you keep staring at it like it’s the last piece of food on earth?
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that there would be countless imitators including oltaire, Michelangelo, and, muc...
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.
…for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown
What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.
