Look at those hands, Oh God, those hands toiled to raise me. – Elvis Presley at his mother’s casket.
Denial endures because it soothes.
Truly evil people aren’t given the license to linger. The fact that you’ve been here so long since death means you don’t have any reason to fear what comes next.
I get the phlegm of fear in my throat again, thicker than before, and I have to keep swallowing hard to be able to breathe right. Don’t ask about my heart. It’s just thudding like some pneumatic hammer.
She also chose snakeskin high-heeled platform shoes with ankle straps.
In order to put a curse on someone and be absolutely certain that it would bring about the desired calamity, a Bocor required an icon of the intended victim.
At forty-four, though bitter, she was nonetheless grateful that she hadn’t been rendered penniless. Having clawed her way to the top once before, she’d been left with just enough assets to start the climb again. This time she would not make the mistake that had led to her ruin; she would not marry.
Carson heard that expression more often these days – It is what it is – and it nettled him every time someone spoke it.
The quarry will be armed with a nine-millimeter Glock featuring a ten-round magazine.
With the thirst of an insatiable swillpot, he had poured down the fiction of two generations of deep thinkers, and he was pickled in their.
He put the screwdriver on a nearby counter.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. – H. G. Wells.
He’s one of those dangerous people that we call sociopaths. He fakes being human, because he lacks all the emotions you and I feel. He cares only about himself, and if he felt he could get away with it, he would commit any atrocity you can imagine, without remorse.
Life is hard and lonely for many people. If all of us would just make one another feel special now and then – not just with money, but however we can – wouldn’t that be lovely?
During the one minute of wakefulness after his head meets the pillow, he wonders not who he once was, not why that life is behind him and beyond recapture, not what organization finances him and crafts his missions. He wonders only how he was made into what he has become. Strange science must be involved, which intrigues him. Sleep.
Progress was real progress only when it evolved naturally and thoughtfully from the history of human experience and accumulated wisdom. When it was imposed in contempt for that experience and wisdom, then progress was in fact radical destruction.
Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals, with loving one place – home – above all others.
She is a kick-ass kind of girl, who not only knows what she wants, but what she should want, which makes all the difference. When you meet her in service, you’ll know her, sure enough. You’ll know her, and you’ll love her.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. – Josh Billings.
Dentists and surgeons frequently used nitrous oxide as an anesthetic. Travis.