Villagers saw me as a person when I played with them, as opposed to when I talked with them.

I find myself constantly taking apart be taken-for-granted.

The adult author finds that by inadvertently violating the school's alcohol policy, she breaks down some part of the barrier between her and the younger students who are subject to more rules.

Community in the American university is paradoxically a private and individual decision.

Ethnic minorities were 10 times more likely than whites to eat at a table where they were the only representative of their race.

Wisdom is merely the counter power used against on your unique talents to prevent them turning into your deadly curses.

...Not I......Not I...You lose.... not I!

My lifetime is my existence in a sacred moment.

Give it up? Not likely. Besides, what else would I do? I totally should have gone to Hogwart's when I had the chance.

But you're so hypnotizing You've got me laughing while I sing You've got me smiling in my sleep And I can see this unravelling Your love is where I'm falling But please don't catch me

Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

It's just Gods way of getting babies to heaven faster!