Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love
Another relative?" Valek asked. A broad smile stretched Moon Man's lips. "Yes. I am her mother's uncle's wife's third cousin. " --Valek and Moon Man
Trust, Kiki said, Trust is peppermints.
I'm glad you're here. We've had some. . . interesting developments. " Leif groaned. "That's Yelena-speak for life-threatening danger.
Some Queen of the Pipes, I thought. I'd believed I was better than a mindless drone. But I was the mindless one, hiding away. Even now I referred to them as if I didn't belong.
It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.
Ah, Kerry. You've found your heart. Who is she?". . . "A healer, but she's. . . gone.
You wake up, your life is discipline: there's kids, breakfast, lunch box, go to work, discipline, organization, guests. Imagine the semi-final of Super Bowl. We have that every day: lunch and dinner. We play that game. Then you come home and you really just want to drink a beer. But then you discipline yourself and you have to do this thing, this journal. It was painful but I'm so happy I did it. I have newfound respect for people that write.
Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.