I lied, but by his reaction I think he liked what I had said. I had told Shreya about Sudeshna and she was okay with our relationship, but there were a few things that I hadn’t told even her…..secrets. I wasn’t proud to keep it away from her bu...
Lately I can't help wanting us to be like other people. For example, if I were a smoker, you'd lift a match to the cigarette just as I put it between my lips. It's never been like that between us: none of that easy chemistry, no quick, half automatic...
We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound sense of guilt and shame that is not meliorated merely by unearthing memories or focusing on the co...
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But i...
Griffin Hansbury, who was born female but underwent a sex change after graduating from college, has another well-informed view of the powers of testosterone. “The world just changes,” he said. “The most overwhelming feeling was the incredible i...
Edmond: If you ever presume to interfere in my affairs again, I will, I promise you, finish the job I started the day we met! Do you understand? Jacopo: I understand you are mad. Edmond: Mad? My enemies are falling into my traps perfectly! Jacopo: Ma...
Cornelius Fudge: As the Minister of Magic, it is my duty to inform you, Mr. Potter, that earlier this evening your uncle's sister was located a little south of Sheffield, circling a chimney stack. The Accidental Magic Reversal department was dispatch...
[Frawley interviews Claire after the robbery] FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: I understand they threatened you? Claire Keesey: Uhmm. One of them took my licence. FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: Did you try and escape at any point? Claire Keesey: No. FBI S.A. Adam Fraw...
Let me make it clear. There will be no repeat of that night. Absolutely not! Not ever, do you understand?” "Who are you trying to convince, Tessnia? Me or you?
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
Cayl replies...I understand the human reproductive system, Agent Denning; I’m here to capture a killer, not indulge in these intrusive human senses.
No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we can understand the world without becoming entirely overwhelmed by it.
Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?
Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.
It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary
I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand
The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.
I don't have the time or the energy to hate,' says Shara. 'I only wish to understand. People are what they are.
The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.
She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
