When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked it also became a story about the claims that books place on their readers, the imbalance between our inner and outer lives, a cautionary ta...
The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teac...
What? You don't think I'm perfect?" I can't resist, because he gets so riled whenever I bring it up. "I can run up to thirty miles without stopping. I can jump six feet in the air. There is not a material in this world sharp enough to pierce my skin....
Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as for...
It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk. The anticipation of dinner and a book. The din...
You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbour[a] and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil ...
Sally Gerber: The idea is that an understanding of the particular behavioral case histories should, in parole situations, help the subject to avoid habitual traps and, in penal escape situations could, conversely, identify those self-same traps as an...
The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.
You don't think I'm going to deflower you under your father's roof, do you?
Soft flesh mingled with defiant will to create one frustratingly perfect woman.
When I am perfect, I will be allowed to leave.
... imperfection would get me farther than perfection.
Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road.
If our life was perfect...heaven would be meaningless!
God’s not in the business of pampering His children. He’s in the business of perfecting them.
Life would be perfect if monster would stop farting.
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.
I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
