"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say.
They think everyone else does too."
-Khaled Hosseini
"We're only as strong as the tables we dance on."
Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there -- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.
"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death
by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it."
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the
lowest crime rates in the country."
Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble.
"To Nanny Ogg Greebo was still the cute little kitten that chased balls of wool around the floor.
To the rest of the world he was an enormous tomcat, a parcel of incredibly indestructive life forces in a skin that looked less like a fur than a piece of bread that had been left in a damp place for a fortnight."
When kids hit the age of one, they're like miniature drunks. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh, then two minutes later they're crying. They drool.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.
