An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental.
What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved.
That's the thing about fiction, that you live in it totally for a little while, but you must forget it, sometimes totally forget it, in order to go about the rest of your day.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did--which was to hide.
Look for Joy: that's God's echo, and his footprint. Happiness . . . happiness and wittiness and cleverness do not count for much when the darkness falls. Joy is tougher.
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.
Most of the time we are so busy letting our actions speak for us that nobody can hear our words.
In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.
I understand now that nobody could have saved Ty but Ty. There’s no one else to blame. Not you. Not me. Ty was holding all the cards.
The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you
You remain a follower for life when you pay for what people do while nobody pays you for what you do. Do something impressive and become a leader!
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does.
I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.
You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.
Nobody has to do anything wrong to end up living a life that feels like it’s not their own, all they have to do is take a step back, and hope for the best.
We’re toasting the chlorophyll rising in our bodies, catching the energy from the universe. Nobody’s ever been young like we are right at this moment.
To not get caught, commit your crime in such a way so that anybody could have done it, because if anybody could have pulled it off than everyone is a suspect, and therefore nobody is a suspect.
But you should never jump unless you know you can fly, or at least float. Nobody wants to fall. That’s how you end up hurt.
If you try a joke a second time and nobody laughs, don’t tell a different joke—tell different people.
It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.
