You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless.
While I had no intention of hooking up with him, I still wanted him to want to hook up with me. It was the principle of the thing, after all.
Shadow and dust shall be reclaimed, earth sealing the tomb from which you came. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, warrior return, breathe your last. Air, earth, fire, water, hear my voice, obey my order, thrice around your grave do bound, evil sink into ...
From something as simple as what goes in to a good meatloaf to the not so simple - religion, culture, how you should vote, every damn thing you think or believe, your reactions, your behavior - were partially shaped by who and what your parents were.
I must have you. We must have each other. You know that, don't you? You're in my blood, God help us both.
Corpse Pose sounds like no big deal, right? Then what’s so difficult about this spiritualized snooze? Forget about getting your feet behind your head. Just try lying still for ten minutes. With nothing left to do, you’re finally forced to come fa...
Humans want to conquer everyone they can, and buy everything they see. I think this is because humans have forgotten how to be happy. It's not their fault - it's not easy figuring out how to be happy in these days of anything-but-moderation.
hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.
I know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot.
Human beings shouldn't have to enter such doors, shouldn't have to stay behind them. No moon ever entered there, no stars, no anything at all. They were worse than the grave, for in the grave is an absence of consciousness. And God, she reflected, or...
He has no doubts, there is nothing you can say to sway him, to give him hope or trust. He is a miserable animal whose body decays, who will die, who will pass into dust and oblivion, disappear forever not only in this world but in all the possible di...
The games we play are lessons we learn. He assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
So I have an Indian heart if I do something illegal?' "No, you have an Indian heart if you understand the limitations of our resources and are willing to step out of the man-made boundaries of the law to help someone.
Sometimes your own tongue can make you deaf and dumb.
I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.
How do I learn to speak when silence is all I know?
If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.
The scriptures serve as guideposts to keep us on the right path, and prayer is our helpline when we have lost our way or need to be redirected.
In prayer, God doesn't guarantee the answer you want, but He does guarantee the answer you need.
Maybe if we all prayed for somebody else, somehow we'd all be forgiven.
It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.
