Michael might have become a vampire, but watching him stand outside in the night air, breathing in his freedom Claire thought that was as human as it could get.
When they find what they don't like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they've ever seen.' 'Why?' asked Isobel. 'Because . . . because of what they believe.
I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made up of all sorts of things that didn't really exist.
Our children belong to God. We're only given them on loan from heaven. Sometimes God calls them home sooner tan we expected.
Accept the fact that girls squeal when they're happy or confused or excited or scared or because they just saw a certain boy in line.
We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.
- Youth. Live life and enjoy while thou art still young. - Huh? Where's it come from? Who said that? - I did.
It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.
Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
She was so shattered about what kind of man he was -- brutal, tender, passionate. There was little doubt he had some mental disorder.
There were moments in a person's life that they would carry with them until their dying day, and Finely knew the moment Jasper's heart broke would be one of those for her.
The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.
Wenn du in's Fettnäpfchen getreten bist und jemand dir freundlicherweise die Hand hinstreckt, um dich da rauszuholen, dann solltest du die Hilfe vielleicht annehmen, anstatt dich auch noch darin zu wälzen.
Die Jahre, die man auf dem Buckel hatte, waren zu nichts mehr nutze: Man brauchte sie ungelebt, einen ganzen Vorrat davon. Denn je älter man wurde, desto mehr Dinge gingen zu Bruch.
But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.
Her heart kicked hard against her ribs, seized by a terrible fear that refused to let go no matter how hard she pushed.
...The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people...
Even though I may feel unsafe and unacceptable, I am accepted in Christ.
How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?
I had no contacts in, no make-up on, my hair was a frizzy state, my bum was on show for the whole world to see and, for the I also happened to be hanging upside-down from a tree.
No, she did not want to go to hospital. Yes, she would like a cup of tea. Only then did she begin to think rationally again.
