Ma Long Quotes
They say you should treat your body like a temple. I treat mine like a fast-moving dumpster.
The French have the right respect for dogs--in France we chiens get to go to lunch and dinner anytime, anywhere.
The boat from India was a crowded place
To believe that there is no God takes infinitely more faith than to believe God exists, because all the evidence must be ignored. Atheism is the epitome of blind faith.
The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment
I locked the door and turned on the water to fill the tub. I made it so hot that I had to get in real slow. I wanted it to hurt
It wasn't so much that Lola Plum believed she'd learned her lesson in love. Lola Plum was just realistic about life.
Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.
But stories are worlds. New worlds for us to visit. In stories, we live forever.
It's one of those things a person has to do
And perhaps, I'm a Tuesday night and you're a Wednesday morning the way we'll never even notice how we blend into each other.
He loved me like thick molasses on a summer's day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark.
But when I think of us, in the quiet when I'm on my own, I think of Beauty and the Beast.I, being the beast, and you being the last beautiful thing in this city.
Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament to how her grandmother made love to hurricane and calmed the storm.
Kick off your shoes. Unburden yourself with song. Tell each other tales. Dance around the table. Leave the cleaning up for the morning. Then go outside and look at the stars.
Kick off your shoes. Unburden yourself with song. Tell each other tales. Dance around the table. Leave the Clarke awning up for the morning. Then go outside and look at the stars.
Such elderly people were in the habit of saying that he simply had no will-power
Someday find my son...tell him about how things can be between men on this Earth."--A Letter to Jesse Owens
You matter because you are you and there is no other person in this world who could ever take your place.
It takes skill to win a battle, but brains to win a war.
This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.
The question remains... who takes care of you, Miss Vale?" "I might ask the same question of you, Lord Dryden.
Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.
He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts
America loves to pray, God knows. America prays and prays and prays, it is the land of unchained prayer, and all this ceremonial praying is hard on Billy.
America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into the culture-war storyline in ten seconds or less, it dies.
If we were rational creatures we would never get out of bed or live or love.
Henry was now very annoyed
They no longer wanted to entice anyone
Her smile could wash away a thousand doubts as soon as light up a room.
Their faces were inches apart now, and he traced her lips with one finger, lightly, lightly, then placed his lips there as if he’d drawn them into being.
My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. — Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24)
When I tried to washthe ghosts from my head, what I washed away was my whole life instead.
Americans are children who must go somewhere else to grow up, and sometimes die.
Bonding through caregiving..I don't think I'd ever realized until then that so much affection, so much heart connect, happens when we take care of someone.
They're only trees. Only trees. Whose afraid of lonely trees?
I’m tougher than you think. You just need to believe in me. You know, like a fairy.
I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.
Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.