All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.
'Virtual Reality' is a name being slapped on almost anything these days, especially if it's lame.
A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.
His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.
Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?
Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.