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Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see (Was Quotes)
He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to the consternation of passers-by. He talked to himself and the expression on his face changed constantly. Within the space of a single moment he looked surprized, insulted, resolute, and angry - emotions which were presumably the consequences of the energetic conversation he was holding with the ideal people inside his head (Was Quotes)
He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney (Was Quotes)
She was classic Wyoming, that indiscriminate age between thirty and a hundred where the women find a comfort for themselves and just settle in (Was Quotes)
I think there was an awful lot about him that I thought I knew, but the truth was I was just coloring in the missing parts with colors I liked (Was Quotes)
I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered - now I have only one doubt left - which of the twain was God? (Was Quotes)
I hardly ever talk - words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view (Was Quotes)
Mindfulness isn't something we practice only in the meditation hall; we also practice in the kitchen, in the garden, or when we're on the telephone, driving the car, or washing the dishes (Was Quotes)
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life (Was Quotes)
His hand snapped shut over the device and then he crossed his arms. Aria stared in horror. Her Smarteye was buried in a Neanderthal's armpit (Was Quotes)
Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between (Was Quotes)
Maybe his grief was like her wounded arm. Slowly healing. Gradually becoming less consuming as life delivered other worries and other joys. Other sources of pain and happiness (Was Quotes)
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population (Was Quotes)
I didn't say he wasn't a good employer, just that he's not going to be awarded a Sane Person of the Year award (Was Quotes)
Although when there were too many people around - which there certainly were today - it was hard even to remember to say thank you: all those people were like drowning (Was Quotes)
In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone at any succession of such parties, however prolonged (Was Quotes)
A wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can be neatly avoided by following a single precept in life: Do not lie (Was Quotes)
She was touching his body with her tongue, and he felt it there, but somehow what she was doing went deeper. As if that gentle, moist tongue of hers were flicking his heart as well (Was Quotes)
And maybe that was how it was supposed to be... Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps, was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly (Was Quotes)
My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home (Was Quotes)
When I met your father, it was magic. Not for him - not then - but for me. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can look into a pair of eyes and see your whole future (Was Quotes)
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self - preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich (Was Quotes)
He loved the feel and smell of her palm and because he was one of those men who was always ultimately looking to dissolve himself into a woman (Was Quotes)
She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love - nothing, now, but bones (Was Quotes)
In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat. ) (Was Quotes)
I had had my night of weeping... I had purged myself of useless emotions that terrible night, now every nerve every sinew, every thought was bent on a single purpose (Was Quotes)
He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him (Was Quotes)
He was so easygoing, she forgot he could be deadly. And startling as his anger was, it gave her another key to understanding him (Was Quotes)
Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better? (Was Quotes)
Love! Who ever said that love made the world go round? Love was a killing pain, an addiction that had to be fed; yet even in her pain she knew that she wouldn't have it any other way (Was Quotes)