In the end, all Republicans want to make sure we don't increase taxes. That's where we differ with the Democrats.
Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.
I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)
Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered myself, and was considered by others, a bright and capable person. It seemed that was all gone now.
There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.
I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.
The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a little more of both, which means that right now, at this exact moment, you're the happiest and saddest you've ever been in your whole life.
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.
Praise to our Father-God, High praise in solemn lay, Alike for what His hand hath given, And what it takes away.
The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.