If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.
Can I…I mean, do you mind if I sleep up here? If you don't, I, um, understand. I just—" "Yes. " The word bolted out of me. "Yes, please. Maybe I'll be able to sleep if you're here.
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying.
Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.