People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with a sense of discovery, and it worries me.
You don’t want to get to the top of the ladder only to find out you had it leaning up against the wrong wall.
It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.
I don't know why, but the Bible always seems to come to me in my time of need, even with the exact words.
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.
Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots," Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.
Übertreibung und Maßlosigkeit im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus diskreditiert den Kampf gegen den Terrorismus.
Um i'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but i had no idea you would like it so much,' Paris muttered.
That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.
Back off, asshole. I haven't had a woman today, so I'm in no mood for this kind of bullshit.
Need a triumph, his demon whined. I'll get you one. Promise. Sure? What are you, Doubt? Yeah, I'm sure.
Problem was, he couldn’t masturbate his sexual desires away because he’d fry off his cock." Hector
To produce a primary [karmic] cause which is potentially capable of having an effect, three things are necessary: intention, the actual action, and then satisfaction.
But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole.
Anya jumped in front of the man, acting as his shield. “Now, Sabin. He didn’t mean any harm. He’s borderline stupid. You know that.
money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably always will be a matter of political contention.
A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers herself to them most truly.
Embraced in Isaac’s wings, I decided that change wasn’t such a bad thing. It actually gave flight to a whole new world I couldn’t wait to explore.
I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.
The girl, indeed, is rare who does not, on getting married, attempt to remodel her husband according to her own ideas.
We all have the capacity to find the will to do what must be done - even when that which we must do terrifies us most. Remember this.
