One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
How is it that standing outside for a minute in 90 degree heat is torture, yet standing in a blistering hot shower for 20 minutes is paradise?
We had never taken a shower together. We had never even been in the same bathroom together. "Don't flush," I'd said, "I want to look." What I saw brought out strains of compassion, for him, for his body, for his life, which suddenly seemed so frail a...
Emerald slopes became so tall they touched the clouds, and showers painted diamond waterfalls that sluiced down cliff sides.
Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.
That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?
Yeah, I was thinking about taking one of those showers where you huddle in the corner fully clothed and cry," Archer offered.
My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.
It’s easy to be a Christian when you’re living the perfect life. It’s easy to live a perfect life when God seems to be showering you with blessings.
The room was plainly but adequately furnished; she noted the shower stall in the bathroom beyond. Actually, she would have preferred a tub, but this would do.
She'd had sex with a demon. Tayla swallowed bile and tried to keep her stomach from heaving. She needed to shower. And douche.
I went to Bath and Body Works this morning, because I really needed a shower. Hygiene is important to society, I have discovered.
I make music like I make love—in a group. OK, so I’m not in a band, and I sing alone in the shower.
In high school I used to sing in the shower. None of the football players liked it, because they were all naked and I was in a tuxedo.
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks. And the reply comes instantly: For anything.
Painting reflects. It kills you in a colourful shower of emptiness. Flatness. Randomness. And beauty. Yes, it is the most pure beauty I have ever felt in my life.
It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
My real thinking and planning gets done when I'm doing something else like driving or walking or taking the shower.
Starbucks is the last public space with chairs. It's a shower for homeless people. And it's a place you can write all day. The baristas don't glare at you. They don't even look at you.
I use bath gloves in the shower every day. People often comment on my skin and I just tell them that I use bath gloves.
