I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.
I could go to L. A. for limited amounts of time, but I like New York too much. I like seasons. I like fall.
I love to get behind the wheel and get competitive.
There will be consequences for this, he thought. You can't alter time and not be affected. But whatever the consequences are, I will bear them, because the alternative is too terrible. -Artemis Fowl, The Lost Colony
If the act of writing is the act of putting aside the masculine, then you might in that way, it may sound almost crazy to say this, say that the act of writing, for a woman, could be a homosexual act.