Amateur detectives in fiction had always annoyed Ella. They were so unrealistic. She didn’t intend to be the Rabbit Back version of Miss Marple or a cheap Baker Street knock-off, and she really didn’t like the idea of making the tabloids. That wa...
Attention can be trained very naturally, with affection, just as you train a puppy. When something distracts your attention, you say “Come back” and bring it back again. With a lot of training, you can teach your mind to come running back to you ...
I beam back at her. Fuck the surgery, fuck the kids, fuck the men in our lives or no longer in our lives. This is sweet. When she catches up with me, I say, How many, just how many forty-plus women would do that? We gaze back up at the face bleeding ...
Harry Potter: Incarcerous! [Snape blocks the curse] Harry Potter: Fight back!, you coward! Fight back! [Bellatrix shoots a curse at Harry] Severus Snape: No! He belongs to the Dark Lord! Harry Potter: Sectumsempra! [Snape blocks the curse again, thro...
Ash: So what's the deal? Can you send me back or not? Wiseman: Only the Necronomicon has the power. An unholy book which we also require. Within its pages are passages that can send you back to your time. Only you the promised one can quest for it. A...
Ash: [Mr. Fox has just lost his tail in the shooting] It'll grow back, won't it? Kylie: Tails don't grow back. Ash: Tails don't grow back? Kylie: Uh-uh. 'Cept for lizards. Mr. Fox: Tails don't grow back. I'm gonna be tail-less for the rest of my life...
If you don't know where you are going, look back to where you've come from.
Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.
It is often more difficult to come back home than it is to go away.
Lend money to someone who won't pay you back and he'll hate you.
When thieves fall out, honest men get their goods back.
In a conclave many go in as a pope but come back out as the cardinal they were when they went in.
Beware of the front of a bull, the back of a horse and both sides of a blind man.
He who wants to do a good jump must sometimes take a step back.
Scratch an old woman's back and she will let you taste her pepper pot.
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
Turn your scars into stars.
I've turned my tears into prayers
Turn on, tune up, rock out.
Will the reader turn the page?
Children always turn to the light.
