“There exists a sac of skin that distends when I'm tired, beneath my eye. Irreversible tissue damage. Something stretched too far, which… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
“...and it's not my place to chase around after you, fixing stuff. What I know's what I know, and it don't include… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
Been thinking of a friend that not too long ago past, realizing life's too short. she was 15, It can end at… — LisaLovex3 Copy Share Image
“It is not for you to say - you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you have conveniently… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“You think that the world we live in is ordinary. We make noise and static to fill the empty spaces where ghosts… — Sarah McCarry Copy Share Image
“In a sky swarming with uncountable stars, clouds endlessly flowing, and planets wandering, always and forever there has been just one moon… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Because you deserve a duke, damn it!” A troubled expression furrowed his brow. “You deserve a man who can give you the… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“There is an Eastern fable, told long ago, of a traveller overtaken on a plain by an enraged beast. Escaping from the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Crossover' is a word scientists use to describe dolphins' soaring over seas, their traveling so free and fast, so high-spirited and almost… — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
“The sacred rowan is a woman born long, long ago, a woman whose refusal to see love cost first her lover's life,… — Elizabeth Lowell Copy Share Image
“Once, long ago, Francis Crawford had reduced her to terror and, the episode over, she had suffered to find that for Kate,… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“There was and still is a tremendous fear that poor and working-class Americans might one day come to understand where their political… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
“Reaching out, I skimmed my fingers along the side of her neck, all the way around to the back of her head.… — Sawyer Bennett Copy Share Image
“5 years, 260 weeks, 1,825 days, 2.3 million minutes. That was how long ago I met you.If I did it all again.… — Kim Karr Copy Share Image
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“In order to understand how engineers endeavor to insure against such structural, mechanical, and systems failures, and thereby also to understand how… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“The shirt seemed heavy until he saw there was another shirt inside it, the sleeves carefully worked down inside Jack’s sleeves. It… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit.… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
“Through their history ran the strong golden thread of the Bible and the miracles. . . . Ah, the miracles; that was… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
“Still is the night, it quiets the streets down, In that window my love would appear; She's long since gone away from… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot; Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit, Where long ago a… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier… — Kao Kalia Yang Copy Share Image
“The story of Zenia ought to begin when Zenia began. It must have been someplace long ago and distant in space, thinks… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Oh, we solved that long ago!” Rubedo chuckled. “I believe that was Greengallows, Henrik Greengallows? Is that right, my love? Ancient history… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact, characteristic of the best type of dominant male in… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Listen: you are not yourself, you are crowds of others, you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made, you have… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty;… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“We have reason. It is the entire meaning and purpose of Shangri-La. It came to me in a vision long, long ago.… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“In her fevered eloquence she loses herself in detail, mixes up things that happened yesterday with others that happened long ago, imagined… — Jakob Wasser Mann Copy Share Image
“Poem of the Song About Hope" I. Give me lilies, lilies, And roses too. But if you have no lilies Or roses… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Our world is in turmoil. It is aging toward senility. It is very ill. Long ago it was born with brilliant prospects.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He was standing in the Inner Court, shouting for his enemy. When Guenever saw him, and he saw her, the electric message… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“And then there was the harsh fact that the world of Manhattan and particular its living voice, the media, seemed to cruelly… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“After I’m gone, I want to leave behind my memory. I want the dead leaves during fall to crack like my heart… — Elizabeth Heller Copy Share Image
“I can barely hear her whisper. "One of us has to win this thing." My eyes travel up the long stems to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“But then, Phillip reminded me of something that happened so long ago, I had completely forgotten it. He reminded of when we… — Jillian Dodd Copy Share Image