They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.
Oh -- who's the Queen?" "Her, of course. The White Queen. You're just like Alice, you know. Down the rabbit hole with the Mad Hatter.
He took me down and out into the afterlife of the brightly lit streets, a haze of rain around each streetlight like a galaxy, the whole street a universe spread out like a banquet.
Life comes at you hard and fast, it doesn’t slow for anybody. It weathers you, destroys you. It breaks down your mind, body, and soul until there’s nothing left. Then what?
It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host's house, a situation which any guest seeks to avoid.
No more Lastrygonians.” Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. “Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.
REQUIEM Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me:
Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.
Selling does not require one to be a master of business administration. Training or no training, selling boils down to one thing – meeting people.
Mortals live but their souls are little more than raw energy coursing through flesh. When they die that energy is broken down and returned to the cosmos. There is no heaven, and no hell. Only delusion.
Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in the process, etch within you the arcs of exceptional narrative.
And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me.
You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down
Go on down to the local palm reader, she'll spit out exactly what you feed her because honey, you already knew your husband was a cheater.
I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.
Whoa," said Nico as he climbed off the bus. "Is that a climbing wall?" "Yeah," I (Percy) said. "Why is there lava pouring down it?" "Little extra challenge..." - Percy
A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.
I don’t know what it is, but he makes me want to knock down all the walls I’ve put up and let him inside. And it scares the shit out of me.
What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?
I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.
I am taken to the police station and they place me in an interrogation room. I am there for about thirty minutes before someone walks in.
