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- The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as…
- They say that when you’re really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the love…
- How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and…
- A bolt from the blue.
- Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.
- The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginning of the beginning…
- Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible…
- For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace…
- There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which…
- After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.
- Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to…
- Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.
- Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's nothing else you…
- But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at…
- Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view…
- And when love is over when the diner of love seems closed from the outside you want all those hours back along with anything you…
- You'd think that sweet would be a land far, far away from irritating, but as it turns out they're right next door, and always having…
- I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the…
- I can see it, Ed, I leaned deeper into you, felt you nodding along with the sounds in the room, and your warmth signaled through…
- I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a lunatic wandering around…
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