The dependency of the human element on Planet Earth is a profoundly personal relationship with Nature’s Mom.
And yet here he was, looking at Jem Carstairs, a boy so fragile-looking that he appeared to be made out of glass, with the hardness of his expression slowly dissolving into tentative uncertainty. "You are not really dying," he said, the oddest tone t...
I can't--I can't think about anything or anyone else," he whispered. A hand drifted up, dragging back through his hair. "I can't think straight when you're around. I can't sleep. It feels like I can't breathe--I just--" "Liam, please," I begged. "You...
She was very ugly - the ugliest person you ever saw in your life! Her hair was scraped into a bun, sticking straight out at the back of her head like a teapot handle; and her face was round and wrinkly, and she had eyes like two little black boot-but...
Page 15, paperback version by Virago Press 1997: ... Let me ask you this, Mr Ai: do you know, by your own experience, what patriotism is?” ‘No’, I said, shaken by the force of the intese personality suddenly turning itself wholly upon me. ‘I ...
Maya: You know, can I ask you a personal question, Miles? Miles Raymond: Sure. Maya: Why are you so in to Pinot? Miles Raymond: [laughs softly] Maya: I mean, it's like a thing with you. Miles Raymond: [continues laughing softly] Miles Raymond: Uh, I ...
When a man says yes, his chi [personal god] says yes also.
He left us and we rejoiced; then an even more unbearable person came.
There are three kinds of person that you must not challenge: civil servants, customers and widows.
The person who has been a slave from birth does not value rebellion.
The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of our truth.
Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expression.
I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed.
Because the human experience involves loss, we need to feel it, express it, and then release it. Only then do we achieve healing.
For while spirituality has the dynamic to transcend and transform culture, it invariably expresses itself in and through culture.
The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.
Some people think tears are a sign of weakness. But I see tears as a God-given way for us to express emotion.
Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake and Palmer?" "Ralph and Waldo.
Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.
