Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.

His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.

...You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.

...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.

Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.

There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.

CPEC is an epoch-making project going to put Pakistan-China friendship and their economic cooperation to new heights.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

I think we're approaching an era where there's a consistent dialogue going on between artists and consumers. And I think that's going to be part of the solution to actually selling music.

The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.

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