But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.
The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.
Do you mind if we leave here so I can chain smoke 'til I throw up so it will be easier to quit?
One day I have a revelation. ‘I think we’re actually quite compatible,’ I tell him. ‘You’re irritable, and I’m irritating.
We're not quitting until I'm satisfied you know what you're doing," he said in a low voice. "Until we're both satisfied," she corrected. Killing. Him.
The point of the calling was, quite simply, that it was appointed by God to serve neighbors. If along the way some self-fulfillment came as well, there was nothing wrong with that, but it was hardly the point of the calling.
There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for further for the cause of trouble.
Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.
You don’t understand; this girl’s different. She’s beautiful, kind, giving, sweet, strong, stubborn, and quite a smart ass.” Connor Black's thoughts on Ellery Lane
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand....How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss....
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.
Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.
We do not disappear without a trace. We leave a wake that never quite disappears, a gash in time that we so laboriously leave behind us.
You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.
God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.
Because when you find something you love, you can’t quit. Every failure pushes you harder. It’s in your soul and in your fucking heart
It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.
People’s lives can become quite difficult when they don’t understand that the spirit that lives in them...lives in all of us. Humanity...we are one☺
Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.
