Quotes of: Likely Keyword

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

The Dragon: Fifteen Stories

Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a witching wand seeking water.

Death Screams

Life is a bowl of cherries just make sure you spit out the pits

Dreams: A Journey We Would All Like to Take

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...

Essays and Aphorisms

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.

The Etched City

You like them," I realized. Noah's eyebrows lifted in question. "Like as people." "As opposed to...furniture?" "They're my PARENTS." "That is my understanding, yes.

The Evolution of Mara Dyer

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

Ender's Game

The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Embassytown

Vel once told me that the heart isn't like a cup of water. You can't drain it. It's more like an endless well, and the more you love, the more it pumps out.

Endgame

I'm interested. It's like you've got all these weird barriers set up, like you only want me to have access to this tiny part of you…

Eleanor & Park

The only thing that I am completely certain of after this experience is that I am no longer afraid of death.

Enigmas Like Us

But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.

The Exorcist

For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it.

Five Children and It

A statement of truth, and that is: Everything I have accomplished is Thanks to the Lord above, and without him my success would have been impossible.

Floetry: Flowing Like Poetry

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

A Familiar Rain

Not all sons were like their fathers. A son chose the man he would be. Not all daughters were like their fathers. A daughter monster chose the monster she would be.

Fire

I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.

The Fault in Our Stars