Indignation is often the best defense.
No matter how offensive she's been to me, she continues to act as if she has some sort of God-given right to keep coming back for more favors.
Reacher was the kind of guy who solved all problems as permanently as possible.
Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden.. forbidden for him. It's possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa.
In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?
Wedded she some years, and to a man Of fifty, and such husbands are in plenty; And yet, I think, instead of such a ONE 'Twere better to have TWO of five and twenty...
At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.
You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Arroganz ist die Karikatur des Stolzes.
I believe that on any trip to heaven, there are always detours through hell.
the screen and keyboard account for much of computers' weight. The intelligent part of a computer is a thousand times smaller than a Gucci buckle.
He may have been a kitchen servant to the rest of the world, but to me, he the world.
Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.
You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.
Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for...
I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we wa...
When you drop a pebble into a pond, ripples spread out, changing all the water in the pool. The ripples hit the shore and rebound, bumping into one another, breaking each other apart. In some small way, the pond is never the same again.
Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.
