How history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws.

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.

Failure is just another give way sign, not a stop sign.

But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.

Life is so humbling, when we slow down and witness the gifts.

The worst form of equality is to try to make equal things that are their reciprocal opposite complimentary.

It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.

Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

It's just a horrible thing to keep saying to a woman, do you want a baby inside you? I mean, it's creepy.

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

Between urine and filth we are born.

There was huge pressure, especially before the big games. Not many people believed in us, but we believed in ourselves. We wanted to do something good and we did.