It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile.

He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times that of his classmates. They had thought him strange, weird, or even suicidal, depending on the escapade in question, but maybe it had been a simple case of mental overdrive-if anything about being in constant mental overdrive was simple. Anyway, it was the sort of thing you got under control after a while-you got it under control or you found outlets for it.

Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.