And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.

Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.

Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin.

To understand history, ' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

You have purged your way. You are ready to lead sons of men.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

People want to be loved

The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

Think less. Take action. Be authentic.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.