So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky And flinging the cloud and the towers by, Is a place of central… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them. Then he slid the silk… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
It will be as if I'd never existed, he'd promised me. I felt the smooth wooden floor beneath my knees, and then… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms… — Carolyn Hart Copy Share Image
How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I do sing in the car. I actually sing Britney Spears songs in the car - me and a close friend of… — Kelly Rowland Copy Share Image
On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that's what life is about--the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
…but Sassenach—I am the true home of your heart, and I know that.” He lifted my hands to his mouth and kissed… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
And if you had no tongue, no celebrating language, you’d do this: cross your hands at the wrist with palms facing towards… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
God can do anything. He has all power in the palm of His Hand. My Body, like all other bodies, is a… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
America was the funder of petro-dictatorships. We treated all these countries as basically big, large gas stations: Libya station, Iraq station, Iran… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
