Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.
I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left. That was a tough exit line to top.
Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.
My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.
My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people’s thoughts. Of course, she couldn’t admit I was literally hearing people’s thoughts because that just didn’t fit into her world.
Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.
Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.
I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.
To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident. . . themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other.
Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent 'carbon summer'.
The big problem in America is that everyone is spending 2-3 hours a day watching TV. If you spend that same amount of time reading, you'll be in the top 1% of whatever your field is.