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| 656f623 | One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year. 85% of domestic violence victims are women. Historically, females have been most often victimized by someone they knew. Females who are 20-24 years of age are at the greatest risk of nonfatal intimate partner violence. Most cases of domestic violence are never reported to.. | Terri Reid | ||
| 0500082 | Sometimes out here, people swear to prove they're not scared. | Barbara Haworth-Attard | ||
| a9e5c2a | They're not scary when they're ready to go to heaven, are they?" Maggie said. "No, they're not," Mary agreed. "They're all cleaned up and ready to go home." | Terri Reid | ||
| a7be8ed | Whether it's the family we're born into or the family we create, those are the things we should cherish. | Terri Reid | ||
| d99d9a2 | Aye, it could', Ian added. 'It's many a time when I've walked alone on the misty moors of Scotland, the fog creeping in, the waves pounding against the shore, and then the lone, eerie call of a dead chicken. Caaa-cluck. Caaa-cluck | humour scotland | Terri Reid | |
| 078087d | Oh, Mary, that's no problem at all," Rosie said. She turned to Bradley. "Should I be packing heat?" "Rosie, as a sworn law enforcement officer in the state of Illinois, I have to inform you that it is illegal to carry a concealed firearm on your person," Bradley said. Stanley snorted. "What he's saying is, yes, you ninny, pack heat, but don't tell him about it." | Terri Reid | ||
| 5727f75 | And now you have to figure out who you are without her, | Terri Reid | ||
| 6a1b083 | Bradley describing what happened with the Halloween decorations: "I thought I could get it all down at once, and then it came down ... all at once." | Terri Reid | ||
| b6cdd2e | And your other children," Bradley asked. "Your twin boys, what did you do with them?" Surprised, Mark shook his head." -- | Terri Reid | ||
| ab8f68e | I'm here with a business | Terri Reid | ||
| 127b7f3 | Why is life so complicated? she wondered. What happened to happily-ever-after? "Just because it isn't smooth doesn't mean it can't be happy." | Terri Reid | ||
| 7897b6b | Sometimes we fight, and other times we sacrifice, all in the name of love. | Terri Reid | ||
| 6330b6b | The problem with that secret is the darkness. Just like a drop of ink in water, it spreads throughout the rest of your life and darkens everything else," Mary replied. "Unless it's revealed, unless light is shone upon it, it doesn't go away." | Terri Reid | ||
| 06c711c | he came from a generation where teachers were revered and respected, not ridiculed and scorned. And, perhaps, because he didn't quite understand them, he ignored their behavior for the most part. | Terri Reid | ||
| 40caa8c | I never promised to take you to Europe. I told you we could visit your sister in Texas. | Terri Reid | ||
| 10c47f8 | It gives me hope that love can surpass death and time, that people who were meant to be together, even though they didn't get a chance in this life, might get a chance in the next. | Terri Reid | ||
| 699af6c | I fled the headless darts of slanderous tongue. | Anacreon | ||
| 6d14fc0 | E'en though I would not, die I must;Why stray I thus through life? | Anacreon | ||
| 81234c9 | And last of all comes death. | Anacreon | ||
| 361693e | Seekers of meaning may not find meaning, but they do find each other. (From 'Eulogy for a Friend') | Anand Gandhi | ||
| 5fdf06c | They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. Often, | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 7110a0a | In a deeply interconnected world, there is no 'other'. | Anand Gandhi | ||
| 12441f2 | You have to be a filmmaker, and then you have to be a lawyer as well. | Anand Patwardhan | ||
| ae550a1 | If Hindutva is Hinduism then the Ku Klux Klan is Christianity | Anand Patwardhan | ||
| 2bf939d | War makes you a man; war makes you dead. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 1d86267 | We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war. | Anastas Mikoyan | ||
| 90db710 | Kogda umiraet chelovek, polozheno vinit' kogo-to ili chto-to. Dzhimmi Kross eto ponimal. Mozhno vinit' voinu. Mozhno vinit' idiotov, kotorye voinu razviazali. Mozhno vinit' Kaiovu za to, chto na nee poshel. Mozhno vinit' dozhd'. Mozhno vinit' reku. Mozhno vinit' pole, griaz', klimat. Mozhno vinit' vraga. Mozhno vinit' artilleriiskie snariady. Mozhno vinit' liudei, kotorye polenilis' prochest' gazetu, kotorym naskuchili ezhednevnye soobshche.. | war | Tim O'Brien | |
| 7b0575c | A hundred stories [...] Ghosts rising from the dead. Ghosts behind you and in front of you and inside you. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 810e81d | And right then I submitted. I would go to the war--I would kill and maybe die--because I was embarrassed not to. That was the sad thing. And so I sat in the bow of the boat and cried. It was loud now. Loud, hard crying. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 747d0e1 | Garden of Evil. Over here, man, every sin's real fresh and original." (p80 Mitch Sanders in "How to Tell a True War Story")" | Tim O'Brien | ||
| bea2594 | I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like . . . I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 20a4b7e | It was boredom with a twist, the kind of boredom that caused stomach disorders." (p 34 "Spin")" | Tim O'Brien | ||
| d3ef04d | Knowledge, of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| c82a95c | By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, like the night in the shit field, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 89b5866 | Yes," she said, "television is one of those unique products of the American genius. A means of keeping a complex country intact. Just as America begins to explode every which way, riches and opportunity and complexity, just then along comes the TV to bring it all together. Rich and poor, black and white--they share the same heroes, Matt Dillon and Paladin. In January the talk is of Superbowl. In October, baseball. Say what you will, but onl.. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 204b704 | They didn't know the first thing about Diem's tyranny, or the nature of Vietnamese nationalism, or the long colonialism of the French--this was all too damned complicated, it required some reading--but no matter, it was a war to stop the Communists, plain and simple, which was how they liked things, and you were a treasonous pussy if you had second thoughts about killing or dying for plain and simple reasons. I | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 7541599 | beyond | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 86f1786 | Why do we care about Lizzie Borden, or Judge Crater, or Lee Harvey Oswald, or the Little Big Horn? Mystery! Because of all that cannot be known. And what if we did know? What if it were proved--absolutely and purely--that Lizzie Borden took an ax? That Oswald acted alone? That Judge Crater fell into Sicilian hands? Nothing more would beckon, nothing would tantalize. The thing about Custer is this: no survivors. Hence, eternal doubt, which b.. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| e76bccb | by Tim O'Brien Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi & Phil Falco e-ISBN: 978-0-545-22993-7 All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of | Suzanne Collins | ||
| 9b27886 | Though it's odd, you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. You recognize what's valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you love what's best in yourself and in the world, all that might be lost. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| a35a05c | They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| a3601ab | The day was cloudy. I passed through towns with familiar last names, through the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, where I was a soldier, and then home again. I survived, but it's not a happy ending. I was a coward. I went to the war. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| b976373 | Mrs. Kooshof's intolerance for complexity, for the looping circuitry of a well-told tale, symptomizes an epidemic disease of our modern world. (I see it daily among my students. The short attention span, the appetite limited to linearity. Too much Melrose Place.) | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 4ce3eb3 | But this, too, was a performance. | Tim O'Brien |