Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.

I woke to the sound of rain.

Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.

I like people too much or not at all.

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it.