Education beats the beauty and the youth.
That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.
Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.
To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.
Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.
There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
If I were the Mexican-American father of a young child who was having trouble sleeping because of Donald Trump, or who was being bullied in school because of Trump, or who was becoming ashamed of her own background because of Trump, and Trump somehow slipped away from his security and was walking down a corridor alone to use the men's room at the restaurant where I worked - if I had that chance to confront him, what would I do? Of course if a Mexican or Latino harmed Trump, it would only make things worse. Let John McCain do it. He's a soldier.
I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my clueless grandparents. One time when they were visiting, my grandpa asked me if G. I. Joe had been in any wars lately. I said, "No, but he and Ken got married last week. " Every Christmas since then, my grandparents have sent me a check.
When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.
I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.