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I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

listening to the distant and imagined echo of waves as they broke along the shore on a stormy night in Rodanthe.

Unlike the drop-off, pickup was more chaotic and time consuming, and it took twenty minutes before London finally got in the car.

It's not a thrilling tale of adventure or the kind of fairy-tale romance portrayed in movies, but it felt like divine intervention.

For the first time since they'd been at the house, she saw what seemed to be excitement and wonder in his expression. "That's a tadpole?

That is the first time you said my name and I like it.

What does poet laureate mean? Nothing. It means a person with laurel branches twined around his head. Which is not something people do much now.

It's hard to explain why I was so nervous: it was partly that little children are mysterious beings, and partly because I genuinely believed in first grade.

Not a formidable presence, except in that madman way that drunks wield, that does-it-look-like-I-give-a-fuck-about-anything?

disclaimer:This is a work of nonfiction, but it is also full of dreams, speculations, and shadows. Many names have been changed.

What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.

Even Tucker's way of not living could be described as living, if you had a crush on him.)

When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.

easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret.

The world was always going to be remade by people who were too busy to remake themselves first and who left the world twice as miserable as before.

and predictions. Science is often presented as 'the facts', frequently in

but mammals have at their disposal ten times the resources, they

So it seems to me there are two big unknowns at the very heart of biology today: why life evolved in the perplexing way it did, and why cells are powered in such a peculiar fashion. This

The world will spiral out from underneath you, and you will find nothing to hold on to because you are either too smart or too dumb to find God…

the idea of radical equality Kassar cited in response to Crane's request—programmer being equal to assembly line worker—had a precedent.

We can have lunch at Brown and Muffs

I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.