Fact: Cells are constantly dying and new ones are taking their place Fact: After seven years have gone by, every cell in my body has died and a new one has taken its place. Do the math. That means that every seven years, I'm a totally new me. not one...
You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.
I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't
A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.
Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I'm cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.
Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.
In his own mind, it was never a matter of courage. But courage it was.
Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?...He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage...
This has been done by masters of the trade and Garcia had taken in every stock situation with amazing powers of retention, but he had not put things together right and had used extraordinary discernment in not adding one single touch of originality.
More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.
When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil?
We are not quite conscious of the reason for our disdain when we refer to the illiterate past as wallowing in ignorance... What divides us from them is the column of print. Theirs was a total culture involving all the senses, while ours is a culture ...
None of them, not even what he suspected should have been little boys, were small. He’d always thought that the James boys were freakishly large, but the men that were beating the shit out of each other over food had been much, much bigger. Most ev...
Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.
I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost. I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.
We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.
June laughs. "I have to say, you look better than most people I see. I've heard a lot about you." "I hear about you a lot too," Eden replies in a rush, "mostly from Daniel. He thinks you're really hot.
Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.
How can the boy who stirred an entire nation be dying?
The Republic is weak and broken." I narrow my eyes. "But it is still your country. Fight for it. This is your home, not theirs.
