Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it ...
If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solitary thing beautiful. All that maybe the slightly bet...
Cora,come on now. You can find a guy in, like, a second flat. Half the guys in the band have you on their laminated list." She rolled her expressive eyes at me. "I want something real, Jet. Something that is life changing and dramatic, something that...
There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the page...
And suddenly, in the place of the woman-shape made of shadow, there was something else. Something huge, something ugly. Linay flung up both hands. The thing screamed like a hawk and opened to wings: one white as a death cap, one clotted in shadow. Th...
Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's about using those lies to say something true and real. It's about showing the reader something. It's about making them feel. And h...
A flying crow always catches something.
When the woman wants something God quakes.
In every false step there is something good.
For something great,we have to sacrifice something greater
To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.
Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.
To gain something, be ready to give up something.
I'm a mum. Cooking is something I have to do. It's something I like to do.
When we say ‘Yes’ to something we are always saying ‘No’ to something else. So in that way, we never ‘don’t do’ anything. We are just doing something else.
At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A something that would provide her with a sure sense of fulfillment. But she could not fathom what that something might be.
----quick-witted, an open book in her lap; inside her chest pulses something huge, something full of longing, something unafraid.
Every human being, he believed, must do one of three basic things during his lifetime: leave something living, create something lovely, or make something better.
People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.
When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?
Life is too short not to start something stupid.
