How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many husbands were floating between life and death, clinging to their wives in this world? And how may millions and millions of people were there in the world like Charlie who wouldn't let go of their loved ones when they're gone?

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

Anthony D'Angelo

Ransom perceived that he had never before seen anything but half-hearted and uneasy attempts at evil. This creature was whole-hearted. The extremity of its evil had passed beyond all struggle into some state which bore a horrible similarity to innocence.

C.S. Lewis

That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him

Samuel Johnson

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

Joan Jett

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Bryant H. McGill

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

Pam Brown

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Oscar Wilde

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

Naguib Mahfouz

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.

Orson Scott Card

It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown.

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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Italo Calvino