I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.

You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide Day.

They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.

Much handled things are always soft(27).