Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
If the guy likes/loves you, he won't care if you are a good kisser or not. He should like you for what you are - not how you kiss.
She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.
You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.
Type A Ellie liked to know the rules, like knowing what to expect. Flying blind made her nervous. He prepared to make her all kinds of nervous.
For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.
Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled and stoked my senses.
Ethan was loyal and funny and protective. When we were little, he was the brother most likely to make me cry—and mostly likely to wipe away my tears.
What is grace? I'm not certain; all I know is that my heart felt like a spike, and then, in that room, it opened and felt like an umbrella.
You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
I'm glad she left me the kids. I'd be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I'm only bitter.
I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.
She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.
There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.
Friends are like bras, attached near your heart for support. Foes are like panties, deported, every now and then, when they get dirty.
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.
Art shows what's inside. And that's scary. Showing my paintings would be like...like cutting my arm open in front of a crowd and showing them what color I bleed.
You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.
Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds.
I’m like a praying mantis, except not so devout. And I make love like a monk in meditation, which can often be confused with being asleep.
