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Who told you you couldn't come back when you're grown? Was it the same person who told you grown-ups don't cry or blush or clap their hands when they're happy? Don't try to say otherwise, I've seen you fighting like a boxer to change your face so tha...

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

Family myths are cherished by the people who--however unwittingly--have brought them into being. In my own situation, what my father was really saying to me during that last unfortunate phone call was that I had shattered our family's myth: the myth ...

Healing from Family Rifts: Ten Steps to Finding Peace After Being Cut Off from a Family Member Member

What have you to trade for my silence?" ... He opened his mouth to beckon the men, but Eleri moved like lightning. With her right arm restrained, she couldn't cut him. However, her weapon of choice caught him completely off-guard. Her lips sealed to ...

His Captive Princess

The first time she carved something into her skin, she used the sharp tip of an X-Acto knife. She lifted up her shirt to show me after the cuts had scabbed over. She had scrawled F*** YOU on her stomach. I stood quiet for a moment, feeling the breath...

Hold Still

The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in the assurance that they could live a life of their own as "humanistic" ethics, has...

Judaism and Modern Man - An Interpretation of Jewish Religion

You ain’t old yet but when you get old, all the women in the village start to look down on you when they find out you want to do something other than sweep the kitchen or cut up vegetables. Had this big starch mango tree when I was small. Anytime I...

Rune Mathura and the Case of the Village Jumbie

For that matter," said Toussaint, "it's true. We would be assassinated before we'd have time to say Boo! And then, since Monsieur doesn't sleep in the house. But don't be afraid, mademoiselle, I fasten the windows like Bastilles. Women alone ! I'm su...

Les Misérables

Korben Dallas: [shoves a bag into Ruby's hands] You guard this with your life, or you're gonna look like this guy here! You green? DJ Ruby Rhod: G-green. [cut to the President's office, where every word is being heard over the radio, transmitted gala...

The Fifth Element

Colette: [to Linguini] How do you tell how good bread is without tasting it? Not the smell, not the look, but the *sound* of the crust. Listen. [she presses the bread between her hands] Colette: Oh, symphony of crackle. Only great bread sound this wa...

Ratatouille

EV-9D9: Ah, new acquisitions! You are a protocol droid, are you not? C-3PO: I am C-3PO, human/cyborg... EV-9D9: [cuts him off] Yes or no will do. C-3PO: Umm... yes. EV-9D9: How many languages do you speak? C-3PO: I am fluent in over six million forms...

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Take it, and cut your brother's throat with it, and take back the honor of your blood.

City of Heavenly Fire

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

The Children of Húrin

Challenges bring opportunity for growth.

Cutting the Soul: A journey into the mental illness of a teenager through the eyes of his mother

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

The Collected Poems

I’d go to hell and back and cut off the devil’s head myself to save you.

Corcitura

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

Cutting for Stone

Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.

Cutting for Stone

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

Cutting for Stone

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

Cutting for Stone

... telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology.

Cutting for Stone