I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.
In our counterterrorism cases and our counterintelligence cases, we can issue all kinds of - of layers of approval in the FBI, a national security letter to find out the subscriber to a particular telephone number and to find out what numbers that telephone number was in contact with. Not the content of those communications, but just the connection.
. . . You're omniscient, right?" "For the most part, yes. " "Then you have to tell me this ‘cause I have to know. What's at the end of everything?" He shrugged. "That's easy enough. " "Then tell me. " "The letter G.
Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.
P. P. S. AND YOU CAN TALK. "Just say the word. " JUST SAY THE WORD? What kind of expression is that? WHAT WORD WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SAY ANYWAY? MORON? Letter from Emily to Charles.
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to shreds. She had wondered how she could feel so much pain and still survive.
I saw 'The Artist. ' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
truth is a letter from courage!
There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard.
But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.
Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
In high school you just kind of go with it, you belong to a sport and you're lettering and there is a very social part. With cycling, a lot of people will steer away because you can't letter, and lettering is still cool and it's very important for scholarships and other stuff.
It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts. This letter, the first and rarest of all printed Americana, describes the scenery and the natives of Hispaniola.