And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not life even, that’s like dea….

And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?.

It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant..

Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about m….

I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motiva….

Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a mag….

It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as….

She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart..

Today exists between yesterday and tomorrow..

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?.

I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe..

But it turns out that even if I don’t talk a lot, when it’s something that matters I still have a lot to say..

You can’t think about how much you have left to do because that’s just one thought, one sad thought, that’ll make you bummed out all day long. Instea….

When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said..

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?.

Why was it that jam always coated me so?.

I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that’s the whole point in the end, all of us….

So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like ….

Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later..

And that's where our conversation went from there, than God, both of us laughing our butts off at the thought of a hoops game between two teams on in….

Everyone I looked at, their whole lives, did exactly what they were supposed to do without even questioning it, without even wondering if they could ….