It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division.
Without death, life would have no boundaries and our days would not be so precious. My mother was a firm believer in the common sense of nature.
If she died as a result of this journey, it wouldn't be because of slavers. It would be because Richard's inability to communicate would give her a heart attack.
That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.
It's very ugly' I said generously. 'But it looks as though it would laugh at snow. And, if you hit a deer it would hiccup, and keep going.
I hoped Claire would have a girl. A nephew would be fun until he got his first erection and then he'd be like the rest of them.
My dad--he would call it timeless, or classic. The type of beauty that no matter what time, age or era, would always still be beautiful. She was beautiful.
Some man would come to her room. Maybe she would hesitate, and he'd grab her, pin her to the mattress, force her to cooperate.
I couldn’t bring myself to call him either “Bill,” which would signal friendly familiarity, or “Doctor Vogel,” which would imply respect.
So that when you found your Jake Andrews, you would know. You would know what it felt like to stand in front of your forever
How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book, he had always been tormented by the thought that there would inevitably be a last sentence.
If I wrote the word flower, would it still grow like a flower? If I wrote a poem concerning a river, would the water still flow in the eyes of the reader?
Later it would occur to him that a new life - to be a new man - would require him to take chances, to act on whim
Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.
flagrant, adj. I would be standing right there, and you would walk out of the bathroom without putting the cap back on the toothpaste.
Over time, we would learn each other, and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.
You would be surprised what you can do when you have no choice. That's what courage is, Xavion. It's the result of facing what you thought would consume you.
The scenic route was a paved graveyard of dreams, but Fillion hoped his would rise from the ashes, marking the moment when he would finally own his life.
Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.
In love as as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
