I wake up. Immediately I have to figure out who I am. It’s not just the body—opening my eyes and discovering whether the skin on my arm is light or dark, whether my hair is long or short, whether I’m fat or thin, boy or girl, scarred or smooth....
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promise of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thous...
Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their lives with the old days. It is in the shamed darting eyes of th...
Our society reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social ...
People who wrote novels about universities hardly ever got them right. Max had spent his short working life untenured, but still he'd managed to be a charming magnet wherever he taught, and Amy had surfeited on faculty gossip and professorial antics ...
A sematary," I say. "A what?" Viola says, looking round at all the square stones marking out their graves. Must be a hundred, maybe two, in orderly rows and well-kept grass. Settler life is hard and it's short and lotsa New World people have lost the...
I thought about that while he made his next calls, while I kept on with the newsletters. I thought about it during Sunday service at Word of Life, and during study hours in my room, with the Viking Erin and her squeaky pink highlighter. What it meant...
It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.
But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too closely with the police for too long. Cynicism is so contagious.
I think part of me doesn't want to remember him, for fear of missing him too much.
You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.
A pet rock is a serious commitment and too much responsibility for a ten year old to handle on his own
A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them.
You don’t see the real me. You don’t know what all I’ve done.- Rush Finlay
Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me?
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
When it was too late for rescue, it was still early enough for revenge.
