Quotes of: Significant-other Keyword

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

You are a story worthy of being told, A person made to be loved, With a life meant to be lived.

From the Cafe and Beyond: A Collection of Poems and Other Writings

I'm supposed to eat shit with a fork and a knife and say thank you when I'm done swallowing this crap?

Drinking and Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders

No matter how old you are, there’s no cozier feeling than to have your mom take care of you.

Drinking and Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders

I had stopped doing anything for myself. I no longer felt like an individual because for thirteen years, I was one-half of a “we.

Drinking and Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders

You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.

The Darkest Part of the Forest

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. (“The Wife Of Ted Wickham”)

Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

Remember always where the dreaming ends and the being begins. Draw a line for everything you care about and then step over it.

Double Dutch and Other Stories

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Dusk and Other Stories

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

Double On-Call and Other Stories

If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad - and that was the truth about everything.

Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

You're never too old to laugh at stories about love and sex.

Dating and Mating Secrets of Seniors and Other Short Stories of Love and Sex

There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.

Death in the Woods and Other Stories

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

Well," a female voice said. "What have we here?" "Here," Bethany said, responding to the woman's rhetorical question, "we have a teenager. And she's pissed.

Every Other Day

My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.

Essays with a Purpose

It is one thing to believe in witches, and quite another to believe in witch-smellers.

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays