Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.
Can we swim?" Sky asks, resting her chin on my shoulder. "Did you bring a suit?" Please say no, please say no... "Yeah." Crap. "Great.
She glanced down at the contents of her plate. "Sloppy Joe," she managed. "Hmm," he said, sounding doubtful. "May he rest in peace.
They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.
There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged.
Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.
The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death. The rest are actors who want me to stay and further the plot.
I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest.
I’d rather spend the rest of my life without ever seeing you again,” he says, “than watch them destroy you because of me.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
The timbre of his voice went into that low register that made my insides curl in on themselves--it was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs.
What I remember most is the searing sensation of looking into her eyes for the first time,eyes that would hunt me for the rest of my life
The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.
If the most connected we’ve ever felt with another person was in that brief moment of apology and regret after physical abuse, then we’ll seek that abuse for the rest of our lives.
You are like the kid who even cannot understand the different between a kiss on the cheek and a kiss on the lips; simple and devoted unlike the rest of the world.
...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.
The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.
Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days…
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!
I have a spreadsheet of all the women I'd like to spread and sheet. Your mom is on my list. So is your grandma, may she rest in peace.
Our friends have a way of reminding us of how fabulous we are when the rest of the world has forgotten.
