Fat bitch," Kessa murmured as the door scraped closed behind Mrs. Stone. "She meant well, Francesca. And you see, everyone thinks you're too thin." "Since when is Mrs. Stone an authority on appearance. I've heard you say a thousand times that she loo...
I am a diamond in the rut. A diamond to an untrained eye looks like a rock stone. So men will kick it around on the ground. It takes a man with an expert eye for fine Jewelry to notice its worth. Do not feel bad when men treat you like the little boy...
Notary Jean Lebel: Will of Mrs. Nawal Marwan... To Notary Jean Lebel: Bury me with no casket, no prayers, naked, face down, away from the world. Stone and epitaph. I want no gravestone, nor my name engraved anywhere. No epitaph for those who don't ke...
...a world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time.
His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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He’d seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon.
Whatever betterment we have today was carved out of a world of stone by men of the hammer, not men of hope.
No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in stone
Forge your iron; shape it by force, not into a flower you already know but into what can also be a flower if you think it is and it is so.
He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.
The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled.
She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' Yeah, well, whoever wrote that was a friggin' idiot.
The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They're fond of paradox in that region.
The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.
My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.
