Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.

Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.

But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could just spend time mooning over each other. Hero worship and all that stuff.

The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.

It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.

About GreenHollyWood who is this character?? My English teacher a fat guy about 30 or 35 years old with Glasses and short Hair.

She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...

Each moment in time we have it all even when we think we don't.

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

Now is the time to learn how to argue constructively before you have children.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

Do you have a multiple personality disorder?

Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.