Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.
I was craving a chance at the lifelong fantasy, and I had that. That was a one-off thing. I was looking for an experience, Eric, not wanting to cultivate a habit.
This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive.
It was surely one thing to respect the Dark Arts as a dangerous enemy, another to speak of them with a loving caress in his voice?
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
God had saved him from the fish cellar and that could only mean one thing. He had more work to do. (John Frith, p.64)
Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.
One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.
I gaped at what I saw next. She yanked his arm off and ate it. Gross! I knew she was hungry, but that was just...well, against the school rules for one thing.
Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
If there's one thing I hate, it's not knowing what's wrong with someone and all you want to do is make them feel better.
People and things would continue to exist in a world where I did not, and no one would ever think of me. And, if that was the case, then what was the point of existing in the first place?
Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.
Sex is one of those things that's complete loss of control. You give yourself up, in your most vulnerable state, to another person, and they give themselves to you.
She wanted -- needed -- a McCall induced orgasm. And if he kept kissing her like she was the sexiest thing in the world, she might have one in the next half a minute.
The face you wear in a battlefield should be a solemn one until the time when things are cleaned up and the real world drips its way in.
Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.
I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you want them to.
It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?
One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land.
