You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.
Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.
Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.
I am very good at groveling.
Where are my guards, Teleus?" He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted.
I knew I would be in the story somewhere," Eugenides interjected. "Oh no," said Phresine, "This was a humble servant. " "Ouch. " "Though very courageous. " "Not me," whispered Eugenides to his pillow.
The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at dawn take-offs. . . . It was so alive and rich a life that any other conceivable choice seemed dull, prosaic, and humdrum.
We've had people say, "Now when I go to work, I don't feel uncomfortable talking to people of different races, and I go up and introduce myself, and I start making a new friend I wouldn't have done otherwise. "
That's basically what the drive is: "I want to be famous, I want to be noticed, and I want to be approved of. " That's basically what you're after. "Give me attention, give me applause, give me an audience. A. A. A. Straight As. " That's all you're looking for.
Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.