We discover the depths of our humanity when we let go of reality and enter the realm of the senses.
We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was
There is a moment when time stops, when the air grows still, when you enter a state of nothingness, a state of purity and perfection. That is the moment to strive for.
I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly
I totally bought you as a girl," says Marisol. "I'll double check with Frances later, but by the sounds of things, you seem to have no balls.
Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.
I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.
How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?
We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.
For the girl without words, there is laughter for what is light, gesture for want, and tears for all that is dark. There is not much more. Names are nothing but extravagance.
He just wanted to see what a girl who was crazy enough to kill herself looked like.
It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.
That's what underwear is for, girls, so if an emergency happens you only show your cookies to the people you love.
Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.
The rivalry ends here," [Percy] said. "I love you, Wise Girl.
My love life couldn't be more nonexistent if Julius was all all-girls' boarding school with a moat full of alligators around it.
This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.
Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.
Bitten? You mean you're a-" "A werewolf," said the girl. "Like everyone else here. Except you, and the asshole. And the asshole's sister.
You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it.
Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.
