I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.

I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.

He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.

Mine" he said. Adam's eyes narrowed. "I don't think so. She is mine." It would of been flattering,I thought,except that at least one of them was talking about dinner and I wasn't certain about the other.

It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.