Maybe awful things is how God speaks to us, Vernon thought, trudging up the lightless tunnel. Maybe folks don’t trust in good things no more. Maybe awful things is all God’s got to remind us he’s alive. Maybe war is God come to life in men. Ver...
I have a horrid scar right under my left knee from you. Well, the absence of you. Seems appropriate. But I still miss you. My pillowcase smells like you, so I bury my face in it and breathe it in. Things feel empty. My couch, my living room, my heart...
Also, I’m not going to be devastated or anything either way. I’m not that kind of person. I just think if you don’t say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I—” she says, but then I hold up my finge...
Hub: Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good al...
I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself...
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
Want a thing long enough, and you don't.
A fool by chance may say a wise thing.
From trivial things great arguments often arise.
When things go well it is easy to advise.
He who dispraises a thing wants to buy it.
The best thing about a man is his dog.
This is better than the thing we never had.
Don't look for bad things in the good that you do.
It's too bad to want a thing and not be allowed it.
An indispensable thing never has much value.
The less things change, the more they remain the same.
God lets things go -- but only to a point.
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the faithful are the ones who make things out of nothing. Everybody else, they make things out of ...
When we care, we share.
