What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.
Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours.
I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.
Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.
Andrius, I'm. . . scared. " He stopped and turned to me. "No. Don't be scared. Don't give them anything Lina, not even your fear.
I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.
He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.
Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.
A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning to live and love for the first time. Atmospheric and suspenseful, Compulsion will draw you in and hold you until the very last page.
Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.
Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.