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I can write about all of these bizarre and funny characters in my book, "Diggin' Elroy," because I know them better than anyone else. I have a little bit of all of them in me.

Diggin' Elroy

When they find what they don't like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they've ever seen.' 'Why?' asked Isobel. 'Because . . . because of what they believe.

The Different Girl

There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must experience things without condemning them, because if we condemn them, then we are becoming too involved.

A Disobedient Girl

Ideas are like legs: what good are they if you can't run with them, or spread them?

The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.

Drown

Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.

The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as achievable.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

I hate parties. And a wedding is the biggest party of all. All the guests arrived and Orpheus is taking a shower. He's always taking a shower when the guests arrive so he doesn't have to greet them. Then I have to greet them.

Eurydice

Try to turn as many soft, aspirational goals as possible into success criteria, and make them specific enough that you can actually tell whether or not you've met them.

The Elements of Content Strategy

This education we're giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that's what makes it so painful. We're showing them how to accomplish the ritual murder of ourselves.

Eating People is Wrong

Our children belong to God. We're only given them on loan from heaven. Sometimes God calls them home sooner tan we expected.

English Girl in New York

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto.

Girl With Curious Hair

I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.

Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus

Believe that God is strong enough to save your children, no matter how you fail.

Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus

The ECTs are moving the guns in small batches," Bat said. "We're making them take so many photos that one of them asked if she was being trained to shoot porno.

Gun Machine

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

The Girl with No Shadow

Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.

Ghost Town

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

Of Human Bondage