. . becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.
Obeying the rules might be smart, but it's not as nearly as much fun.
All you have to do is take a man at face value. Don't go into it thinking you can change them. Men aren't fixer-uppers, not like a house or a car. You buy them as is.
Sixty-five seconds," he said. "You weren't breathing for sixty-five seconds after we found you. I lived and died during each one of them. " He let out a breath. "Never again.
In his world, people never questioned him. And it was a good place to be, his world. Apparently she hadn't gotten the memo.
Oh my God," Maddie whispered, horrified. "I rented him that boat. Does that make me a murderer?" Tara's heart clutched. "He's not dead yet. " "Hurry," Maddie called to Ford. "I can't be the one who killed Tara's ex!" I look terrible in orange!
It was not enough. It was too much. It was everything.
Don't mess with me, Calvin. You'll only get hurt.
It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.
While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.
Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never having played golf, they never knew that strange chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip shot. If Cleopatra had been ousted in the first round of the Ladies' Singles, we should have heard a lot less of her proud imperiousness.