Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.
A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.
There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
Thank goodness air and salvation are still free. . . and so is laughter.
It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.
Whatever backlash I was going to get, whatever consequence there was for stating my opinion, I was OK with. Because I look at my son's eyes, I look at the eyes of my daughter, and I would be a bad dad if my No. 1 goal wasn't always to put them in the best situation as possible.
Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.