“I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.”
“Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.”
“Why one human being is attracted to another is one of the great mysteries of the world.”
“Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn’t want.”
“He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can’t shine a sneaker.”
“I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.”
“If I didn’t have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.”
“poor Jan alone. When she noticed I was seriously date-delayed, Christine started trying”
“The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.”
“There’s life after divorce, Sarah,’ my father proclaimed, not that he’d ever been divorced.”
“Honest, hopelessly romantic old-fashioned gentleman seeks lady friend who enjoys elegant dining, dancing and the slow bloom of affection.”
“The soul is born, he said vaguely, first in those moments I told you of. It has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”
“You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that for me?"
June has never looked more beautiful than she does now,unadorned and honest,vulnerable yet invincible.When lightning streaks over the sky,her dark eyes shine like gold."Because you were right,"she whispers."About all of it.”
“You are still yourself in everything except your appearance. You've still got your own mind and your own brain and your own voice, and thank goodness for that.”
“Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a "Penang lawyer." Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. "To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.," was engraved upon it, with the date "1884." It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring.”
“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
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