This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.
Sister," he murmured, not as an inquiry, but a statement of fact. "Brother mine," she groaned. . . before her consciousness slipped from her grasp and she drifted away. But she would come back to him. One way or the other, she would not leave her twin ever again.
The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.
Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.
So planning something big. " "If this is the work of the Overtakers, we've never seen anything like it. " "It is," a voice said behind them. Maybeck slipped in alongside of them. "You about scared the pee out of me!" Charlene complained.
God is dead. Let us not understand by this that he does not exist or even that he no longer exists. He is dead. He spoke to us and is silent. We no longer have anything but his cadaver. Perhaps he slipped out of the world, somewhere else like the soul of a dead man. Perhaps he was only a dream. . . God is dead.
Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should go to my friends; but instead I slipped into the corridors I hadn't used in months, pushed my way through cobwebs and darkness, trying to walk away from the tears that burned hot down my cheeks, because maybe I didn't want to admit weakness; maybe I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief. Or maybe crying is like everything else we do—it's best if you don't get caught.
Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.
How did you learn to drive like that?" Gwen yelled over the howl of six hundred horses. "Watching Jacks. " She gunned the engine and slipped around another car. "What?" "You know, watching his shifting. " Gwen gasped. "You've been looking at his SHIFTER?
He slipped his hands around my waist and pulled me against him, tossing the ice cream cone over his shoulder. It landed with a splat on the sidewalk. 'So does that mean I have a varsity girlfriend?'
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.
While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.
The bus ride to the arena. . . I slipped on my Discman and listened to some of my favourite music, all the while imagining myself on the ice. Visualization and imagery are very important in figure skating, or any sport for that matter. This is where you see yourself in your mind performing in front of an audience and judges. I also imagine how I am going to feel during the performance. During the bus ride, I pictured myself skating a perfect program.
My first epiphany that this might work came on my first day, when I went into biofeedback. They hooked me up to computers through electrodes, put me in a comfortable lounge chair, put an eye pillow over my face, slipped speakers onto my head and played an audio guided visualization.
For all your talk, you don't know the first thing about love. " Tears spilled over her lashes and rolled down her cheeks. She slipped the chain that held his Super Bowl ring over her head and pressed it into his palm. "I love you, Bobby Tom, and I'll love you till the day I die. But I've never been for sale. I was a free offering all along.
Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep
And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.