The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.
Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.
This kind of thing always amazed Ginny – people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn’t see the point. Aunt Peg had done that. Ginny knew she never would. That either made her someone who worked hard and finished things, or someone who didn’t have the guts to break away from the pack. Maybe both.
Stuart, who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences. There was parents-have-just-been-jailed me, stuck-in-a-strange-town me, insane-and-can’t-shut-up me, kind-of-snarky-to-the-strange-guy-trying-to-be-helpful me, breakup me, and the extremely popular jump-on-top-of-you-unexpectedly me.
Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. Now she could address the rest of the room.
You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they’re supposed to be.
When you have enough power and money, you can dictate the meanings of words.
All the money, all the power – none of it compares to a good book. A book gives you everything. It gives you a window into other souls, other worlds.
Of course I worry too much,” Nate said. “But I’m usually right. The people who worry are always right. That’s how that works.
There is nothing so serious as a game.
Anxiety and excitement are cousins; they can be mistaken for each other at points. They have many features in common – the bubbling, carbonated feel of the emotion, the speed, the wide eyes and racing heart. But where excitement tends to take you up, into the higher, brighter levels of feeling, anxiety pulls you down, making you feel like you have to grip the earth to keep from sliding off as it turns.
The wonderful thing about reality is that it is highly flexible. One minute, all is doom; the next, everything is abloom with possibility.
Sometimes Stevie felt bad for her parents. Their idea of what constituted interesting was so limited. They were never going to have as much fun as she did.
What you lack in any investigation is time. With every passing hour, evidence slips away. Crime scenes are compromised by people and the elements. Things are moved, altered, smeared, shifted. Organisms rot. Wind blows dust and contaminants. Memories change and fade. As you move away from the event, you move away from the solution.
Albert Ellingham said knowledge was his religion and libraries were his church, so he built a church.
Sometimes I even felt like he dated me as part of his plan, like they were going to have a checklist on the application, and one of the things to tick off was going to be, “Do you have a reasonably intelligent girlfriend who shares your aspirations, and who is fully prepared to accept your limited availability?
Few words are more chilling when put together than make friends.
So much of anxiety was anxiety about having anxiety.
Anxiety does not ask your permission. Anxiety does not come when expected. It’s very rude. It barges in at the strangest moments, stopping all activity, focusing everything on itself It sucks the air our of your lungs and scrambles the world.
Stevie woke the next morning, which was a good start. When things are bad, give yourself a point for everything.