Dear Grimm, we’re not in Emerald anymore.” I started to hyperventilate.Rexi remained sprawled on her back. She barely opened an eye at my hysterics. “Duh.

Hope is like a balloon. It seems like it swells up just so someone else can pop it in your face.

You never know what you're gonna find when you look under those covers - grandma or the wolf.

Fish and company start to smell after three days.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Your taxes go way down under a Trump administration.

Some people's brilliance is in their head. A surgeon's brilliance is in her hands. But there are people who have brilliant hearts. They shine right through them.

It was simultaneously refreshing and a bit shocking to see how cavalierly most Aussies toss out slurs and insults about nonwhites.

We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.

Politicians must pick sides regularly; every time they vote. So it's perhaps natural that they see the world as a battle between competing groups.

We were in an awkward position against Yugoslavia in that in order to win we needed to score more goals than they did.

Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.

Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!