Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love (Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
You still owe me a million dollars.” I’d presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had yet to pay. Couldn’t imagine why.”Yeah, I was hoping we could work that out.””The interest alone is going to kill you.””What do you charge?””Three hundred eighty-seven percent.””Is that ethical?””It’s as ethical as my dating the son of Satan
You still owe me a million dollars.” I’d presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had yet to pay. Couldn’t imagine why.”Yeah, I was hoping we could work that out.””The interest alone is going to kill you.””What do you charge?””Three hundred eighty-seven percent.””Is that ethical?””It’s as ethical as my dating the son of Satan (Darynda Jones, Fifth Grave Past the Light)
Who knows the life which does not burn its own time moments? – Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Who knows the life which does not burn its own time moments? – Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century (William Lyon Phelps)
I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child
I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child (Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord)
Serious people are not easily distracted! – Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Serious people are not easily distracted! – Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It slaughtered my trust.It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.We exchanged blind words,and I did not cry,I did not beg,but blackness filled my ears,blackness lunged in my heart,and something that had been good,a sort of kindly oxygen,turned into a gas oven
Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It slaughtered my trust.It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.We exchanged blind words,and I did not cry,I did not beg,but blackness filled my ears,blackness lunged in my heart,and something that had been good,a sort of kindly oxygen,turned into a gas oven (Anne Sexton)
Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself
Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself (Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine)
This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over
This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over. (A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar)
I am who I am and that’s it! – Jen Calonita, Broadway Lights
I am who I am and that’s it! – Jen Calonita, Broadway Lights