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I'm going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I'd like to take on a different challenge and probably a different era. But it will be another war. It's what I do.

Rick Atkinson

I can't go to Amsterdam. One of my doctors thinks it's a bad idea." He was quiet for a second. "God," he said. "I should've just paid for it myself. Should've just taken you straight from the Funky Bones to Amsterdam." "But then I would've had a prob...

The Fault in Our Stars

.. the smell of canals and cigarette smoke, all the people sitting outside the cafés drinking beer, saying their r's and g's in a way I'd never learn. I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before this recurrance that I'd never grow old with Aug...

The Fault in Our Stars

This is the true story of my life, as told by a complete liar (me). While that sounds like an honest statement, it’s also a lie. I just can’t help myself. Unless I’m helping myself to seconds at dinner. You see, I can’t possibly be a complete...

Gosh, I probably shouldn't publish this.

Verse 12 [of Ex. 12) tells us that the judgment of Yahweh is not only on the Egyptians but also on their deities. This is probably an allusion to the fact that Egyptians would often pray for the safety of their firstborn, particularly firstborn sons,...

Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper

I hope you read this, whoever you are, and imagine that there is a hypothetical person out there who needs your love, has been waiting silently, patiently for it all his life, is flawed and downright ugly at times and yet would have just eaten up any...

Sorry Please Thank You: Stories

Keep your prayer simple. Whatever confuses or complicates prayer is probably best forgotten.

Challenge: A Daily Meditation Program Based on the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius

I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

The Courts of Love

Sports can unite worlds, tear down walls and transcend race, the past, and all probability. Unlike life, sport matters.

Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

Mae's first impulse was to die of shame, but she realized after a hot, stomach-clenching moment that this was probably impractical.

The Demon's Covenant

If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.

In An Enchanted Island: Or A Winter's Retreat In Cyprus

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The fight wasn’t over,” I said through gritted teeth. “I’d have won it.” Probably. “Right,” he said. “And something just flew past your window. It was oinking.

Elysian Fields

Oh my lovely princess,"Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them." -Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Elantris

The ones who say "you can't" and "you won't" are probably the ones that are scared that you will.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

His voice gave out and he made several wavy motions with his hand, indicative of the shape of a woman who would probably be unable to keep her balance.

Eric

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

The Eye of the World

Her descriptions will be incandescent, perfect little nuggets of phraseology, and there will probably be lots of sex in her writing - the clinical type of sex with labias and clitorises and tongues going everywhere.

The Fiction Class

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

Foundation and Empire

Appreciation is a great virtue, and if husbands and wives expressed it more frequently in our homes, wives would be happier, and husbands would probably be more kind" (Gospel Ideals, p. 475).

Gospel Ideals