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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

He's legitimizing personal greed as the principal religion of our country.

She sounded like a man, with that deep voice smokers get as their prize for their hundred millionth pack.

She's up on the rent and has her drawer full of sobriety chips that she takes out late at night and looks over like a dragon sitting on its treasure.

But this is just one place. I'm afraid I have seen a world.

It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet.

A book deal, Christ on a bike, quote unquote.

How dire was the descent of a man's life, Thatcher mused, that he should now be stricken with spider jealousy.

The shock settled on Willa like a personal failure, as if she'd invited the disaster by failing to see it coming.

The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.

She was a thin, sharp-boned woman who reminded Blanche of ribbon candy—all curves and gloss

stuff in." I patted my new pen in my pocket.

buy me some more furry mittens," I whispered. "'Cause that would be

Barbara died in 2013, but her legacy lives on in the laughter her books give to readers all over the world.

zero is when you're stinking up the

what happened at school," she said.

Mrs. plopped me in my chair. Then

I have fur hands, William. See them? See my fur hands?

Blane Montague at the latter's country manor, Fountains

supervise the gardener who had taken over from him. She was very fond of Harry

I paused before the door and used the SoldierVision to confirm the hallway was clear before opening it.

He glanced to his left, which for most people is a neurolinguistic sign of recall rather than of construction. Had he looked in the opposite direction, I would have read it as a lie.

there are qualities of devotion, and celebration, and meditation, qualities that are necessary concomitants to a life worth living. Ginza-yu