His flesh took paleness from his bones.
In our lives, on average, we will be asleep for a total of 8,477 days. If we're lucky, some of that time will be sleeping next to someone we love.
Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.
Let me think about the people I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me, I still love them. I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them - Then let me extend that generosity to myself.
In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.
Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done.
Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.
It's starting to look like Donald Trump may be a serious presidential candidate. If you're in my line of work, Trump running for president for real is the greatest thing that has ever happened.
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted was to hold my assumptions to the light, and to watch them sparkle in their facets, as all sham gemstones do.