And she was not beautiful asleep. Her expression slack and not angelic. The very ordinariness of it so beautiful he felt a yearning to be something more than he was or could be. And as good a player as he was, he knew as he turned on the reel to reel...
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Wybie Lovat: I'm Wybie. Wybie Lovat. Coraline Jones: Wybie? Wybie Lovat: Short for Wyborn. Not my idea, of course. What'd you get saddled with? Coraline Jones: I wasn't 'saddled' with anything. It's Coraline. Wybie Lovat: Caroline what? Coraline Jone...
For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.
...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.
There are no ordinary moments.
Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.
The seeds of greatness are sown in ordinary soil.
I am just an ordinary Catholic.
I hate being called spoilt. My life is ordinary.
Ordinary morality is innate in my view.
Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.
