Her sadness was like a deep well just beneath the surface of her determination.

She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived.

She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith.

She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.

The boy’s skeletal frame was now all that remained of him, and through his flesh could be seen the steady beat of his indomitable heart.

She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were echoes of a hundred memories she could pluck from her thoughts?

femelu could not understand this, her mother’s ability to tell herself stories about her reality that did not even resemble her reality

Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

He who is greedy is always in want.

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

I get to work with people I love who challenge and inspire me. And I get to sing songs that do that same thing!

Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.

But a big paradigm shift is staring us in the face. If I left things to someone else despite having my own thoughts on it, I wouldn't be true to myself.

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

Even with the help of anti-Russian propaganda in the mass media, Germany has not succeeded in damaging this sympathy.