And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?" He turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling c...
Okay, what in Hades just happened? Stones don’t glow blue or any other color and they certainly don’t burn circles on you.” The stone wasn’t talking. Alexandra considered herself well grounded, yet here she stood, talking to a stone that glow...
...[T]wo of you can be no match for the three giants, I will find you, if I can, a third brother, who will take on himself the third share of the fight, and the preparation...I will show him to you in a glass, and, when he comes, you will know him at...
I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood.
Her rebirth stood in her mind with the clarity of a perfect diamond, the light scattering the rainbows through her body.
I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.
Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.
The young man who stood there was the handsomest mad Rand had ever seen, almost too handsome for masculinity.
Death, everyone fears it in one way or another but when I stood in front of it myself, face to face, I felt no fear.
He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.
The wounded were crying, and the rest were dying. Jack stood alone in a hallway of mangled men, who had been trained for this
His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made no movement at all.
The truth is so dear to me that if Orholam stood on one side and truth on the other, I would turn my back on my creator himself.
I stood there on the corner of the street, I held on to your hand, I looked into your eyes, And all you responded with was, "move on
What's that?" he asked, when I stood beside him again. "Halos," I said with a grin. "For heavenly creatures like us." "That might be a stretch.
But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?
For almost 20 years, I've reported on some amazing feats of athleticism for ESPN. But the one thing that stood out, game after game, is that it takes a team to win. When I got cancer, that lesson got personal. And Team Livestrong became my team.
I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as ...
Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.
My cat stood still like a furry statue. I wanted to go pet it, but I ended up petting a painting instead. Ah, but that’s life, no?
Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.
