Whenever Ida pointed celery at him, she meant business.
They say envy is a coal that comes hot and hissing straight from hell.
Brave girls don’t cry.
Let’s put it this way, Mrs. Threadgoode said kindly. She’s of this world, but not in it.
This meant that the families of the girls who had been killed would be receiving no death benefits, and at the end of the war, the WASPs, unlike all other discharged veterans, would be left with no GI Bill, no medical, no nothing.
The war was over, but it had taken its toll. More than 400,000 Americans had been killed and 1.7 million had been hurt in some way. And most people didn’t know about the 39 WASPs who had been killed or that 16 Army nurses had died by enemy fire, and 67 had been taken prisoner, including Nurse Dottie Frakes, who was held in a Japanese concentration camp for more than three years.
When you’re a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you’re on the fast train to Memphis.
Nothing had come easy to him. School, sports, or girls... it seemed to Oswald that everyone else had come into this world with a set of instructions but him. From the beginning he had always felt like a pair of white socks and brown shoes in a roomful of tuxedos. He had never really gotten a break in life, and now it was all over.
At the reception, she had introduced a man to his own wife. Twice.
You save up all your energy for the big push – when you need it. And when you’re up there, concentrate. Remain calm and steady as she goes. Don’t look right, don’t look left, don’t let yourself get rattled, just stay the course, nice and easy all the way.
Jerry Falwell would be responsible for the raising of all illegitimate children who had no homes;.
And you can’t be happy and in a rage at the same time.
She felt her heart open and fill with the pure wonder of being alive and making it through.
No, non era la morte a spaventarla. Era questa sua vita di ogni giorno, che cominciava a ricordarle troppo da vicino la grigia sala d’aspetto del reparto di terapia intensiva.
Ci sono persone magnifiche su questa terra, che se ne vanno in giro travestite da normali esseri umani.
The Joy of a Loving God.
All he was doing was just sitting around killing time, looking at the birds and waiting to die.
If good wishes had been ten-dollar bills, he would have left a rich man.
Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong.
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Towanda the Magnanimous, Righter of Wrongs and Queen without Compare.