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| 86c0e4d | Let's have a bet, then. If I'm right, you kiss me," he says. "And if I'm right?" "Name it." It's like taking candy from a baby. Mr. Macho Guy's ego is about to be taken down a notch, and I'm all too happy to be the one to do it. "If I win you take me and the class project seriously," I tell him. "No teasing me, no making ridiculous comments." "Deal. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you I have a photographic memory." "Alex, I'd feel terrib.. | bet brittany-ellis kissed now right tricked | Simone Elkeles | |
| 341452b | Want some?" he asks, pointing to his dinner. Maybe eating will calm my nerves. "What is it?" "Enchiladas. makes kick-ass enchiladas." He stabs a small portion with a fork and holds it out to me. "If you're not used to this kind of spicy food--" "I love spicy," I interrupt, taking it into my mouth. I start chewing, enjoying the blend of flavors. But when I swallow, my tongue slowly catches on fire. Somewhere behind all the fire there's fla.. | brittany-ellis enchiladas spicy spicy-food water | Simone Elkeles | |
| 01e67d1 | I thought we were gonna take this relationship slow." "A back rub is harmless." My eyes roam over her kick-ass bikini-covered bod. "I'll have you know I've been intimate with girls wearin' a lot more." | brittany-ellis relationship slow | Simone Elkeles | |
| 487c862 | How was the kiss with Alex?" "Nice," I say, thinking about how sensual it was. "Actually, Isabel, it was more than nice. It was fucking incredible." Isabel starts laughing, and I laugh right along with her this time." | brittany-ellis incredible isabel kiss | Simone Elkeles | |
| edac8c2 | This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone I've ever met, wants to kiss me. I take over control as soon as she tilts her head. Our lips touch for the briefest moment before I lace my fingers in her hair and keep kissing her soft and gentle. I cup her cheek in my palm, feeling her baby-soft skin against my rough fingers. My body urges me to take advantage of the situation, but my brain (the one inside my head) keeps me.. | brittany-ellis interrupted kiss kissing pissed | Simone Elkeles | |
| 091a274 | clocked | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 179cafe | Paco Fuentes," Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat. Mrs. Peterson regards her new student over the glasses perched on her nose. "Mr. Fuentes, don't think this class will be a piece of cake because your parents got lucky and developed a medication to halt the progression of Alzheimer's. Your father ne.. | brittney class father future mother mrs-peterson paco-fuentes parents past seating-arrangements son test twenty-three-years-later | Simone Elkeles | |
| 4630f36 | Shelley, you think she'll take me back?" Alex asks her, his hair dangerously close to her fingers. She doesn't pull his hair . . . just pats his head gently. I feel the tears running down my cheeks at full speed. "Yeah!" Shelley yells with a goofy, gummy grin. She looks happier and more content than she's been in a long time. Both of my favorite people are with me right here; what more could I ask for?" | brittany-ellis emotional favorite-people happier shelley-ellis take-me-back | Simone Elkeles | |
| fc32ab6 | Paco says, throwing down his lunch. "They think they can buy a U-shaped shell, stuff it, and call it a taco, but those cafeteria workers wouldn't know taco meat from a piece of shit. That's what this tastes like, Alex." "You're makin' me sick, man," I tell him. I stare uncomfortably at the food I brought from home. Thanks to Paco everything looks like now. Disgusted, I shove what's left of my lunch into my brown paper bag. "Want some of i.. | clean goading hurry jeans mine new paco shit spanish stain taco ten-minutes threaten | Simone Elkeles | |
| e3cb303 | When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin? | Alcoholic beverages | ||
| db8c34e | There's some are fou o' love divine,There's some are fou o' brandy. | Alcoholic beverages | ||
| 87e7057 | And broughte of mighty ale a large quart. | Alcoholic beverages | ||
| 65bb5b7 | lay loooo-yah! A-layyyy-loo yah!" He had abandoned his tenor and was singing in a wavering falsetto." -- | John Berendt | ||
| 4b607fb | Chigarid. The man who | John Berendt | ||
| a2b5621 | It's like the control insects at the Laboratory. Di d I ever tell you about them? Well, we keep a lot of insect colonies in big glass jars out there. Some of them have been breeding for twenty-five years. That's a thousand generations. All they know about life is what goes on inside their Jar. They haven't been exposed to pesticides or pollution, so they haven't developed immunities or evolved in any way. They stay the same, generation afte.. | John Berendt | ||
| e5111f5 | He was a nice fellow," Williams says. "He could be charming. He had his girlfriend, I had mine. But to me, sex is just a natural thing. We'd had sex a few times. Didn't bother me. Didn't bother him. I had my girlfriend, and he had his. It was just an occasional, natural thing that happened." The expressions on the jurors' faces suggest they do not find this arrangement natural at all." | sexuality | John Berendt | |
| 812c33a | faked | John Berendt | ||
| 01f61e0 | What was your name before that?" I asked. "Frank," she said." | John Berendt | ||
| 0ff761e | The Bouviers and the Lees alike operated within the great American tradition of immigrant ambition, which held that in making yourself anew, you had the right to embellish the past. | Alice Kaplan | ||
| 92f3922 | To witness is to make the truth known, but we must remember that most victims have no voice of their own, and that in bearing witness to their stories we must not appropriate them | Ha Jin | ||
| 7c5d786 | In short, he must be loyal only to his art. | Ha Jin | ||
| 3eb8d4e | summed up his principle of poetic composition this way: "Lotus flowers come out of limpid water, / Natural without any decoration." | Ha Jin | ||
| b087850 | relationship. Anyone who resented us being together could tattle on us. The world is never lacking in defenders of morality | Ha Jin | ||
| f6a4d8d | Indifference is the strongest contempt | Ha Jin | ||
| baa4980 | But the Internet has spoiled everything--my family is able to get hold of me whenever they like. They might as well live nearby. | Ha Jin | ||
| 633985c | For three days her father, | Ha Jin | ||
| 05ba9eb | Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk,Sipped brandy and water gayly. | Alcoholic beverages | ||
| 5b91581 | Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. | Alcoholic beverages | ||
| 47b1ec7 | Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle?He was all for love and a little for the bottle. | Alcoholic beverages | ||
| 830c8d4 | the words in your copy should be "like the windows in a storefront. The reader should be able to see right through them and see the product." | Robert W. Bly | ||
| bf44eb2 | When I got up to the Peacock--where I found everybody drinking hot punch in self-preservation. | Alcoholic beverages | ||
| ca5c628 | Drink to-day, and drown all sorrow;You shall perhaps not do it to-morrow. | Alcoholic beverages | ||
| 6dc0aa4 | The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the door keeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to. ROBERT BLY | Stephen Harrod Buhner | ||
| 7243444 | TWILIGHT I have dreamed of flight. And I have dreamed of your laces strewn in the bedroom. I have dreamed of some mother walking the length of a wharf and at fifteen nursing the hour. I have dreamed of flight. A "forever" sighed at a fo'c'sle ladder. I have dreamed of a mother, of fresh sprigs of table-greens, and the stars stitched in bridals of the dawn. The length of a wharf ... the length of a drowning throat! Translated by .. | Robert Bly | ||
| 2e6f70c | Jeg trodde Auschwitz var helvete pa jord og at ingenting kunne bli verre. Der tok jeg feil. Auschwitz var et organisert helvete. Krematoriene fungerte. Likene ble ikke liggende pa appellplassen. Warszawa var et planlost helvete. | auschwitz hell jøder mannen-og-muren poland warsaw | Robert Savosnick | |
| 3b83e31 | The result in. successive generations of children is seen in alienation, drug use and violence--what Robert Bly has astutely described as "the rage of the unparented." Bly notes in The" | Gabor Maté | ||
| 8dbcd90 | Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us. | Robert Bly | ||
| b0856e9 | According to Robert Bly, poet and author of Iron John, for a boy to become a man he must be taught by older men who have an interest in the boy.2 A boy needs a mentor--it could be his father, uncle, neighbor, teacher, or close friend. A true mentor is not only interested in teaching the boy the ways of men, he is also interested in the boy's "soul." Many silent sons lacked a father who was capable of being a mentor. Their souls have never h.. | Robert J. Ackerman | ||
| 019a413 | The human face shines as it speaks of things Near itself, thoughts full of dreams. The human face shines like a dark sky As it speaks of those things that oppress the living | human living sky | Robert Bly | |
| c115434 | The psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson devoted a chapter in his Pulitzer Prize--winning book, Childhood and Society, to his reflections on the American identity. "This dynamic country," he wrote, "subjects its inhabitants to more extreme contrasts and abrupt changes during a generation than is normally the case with other great nations." Such trends have only accelerated since Erikson made that observation in 1950. The effects of rapid social a.. | Gabor Maté | ||
| 878bdae | Nowadays it often takes two parents working full-time to secure the same standard of living one wage earner could provide thirty or forty years ago. Deepening social stresses and the growing sense of economic insecurity even in the midst of relative wealth have all combined to create a milieu in which calm, connected parenting is increasingly difficult. Precisely when parents and other adults need to form stronger attachment bonds with thei.. | Gabor Maté | ||
| bf1b18e | Of course, I have never agreed that creativity is the great contribution of the advertising agency, and a look through the pages of the business magazines should dramatize my contention that much advertising suffers from overzealous creativity--aiming for high readership scores rather than for the accomplishment of a specified communications task. Or, worse, creativity for self-satisfaction. --Howard Sawyer, Vice President, Marsteller, Inc. | Robert W. Bly | ||
| dd55605 | Taking the Hands" Taking the hands of someone you love, You see they are delicate cages... Tiny birds are singing In the secluded prairies And in the deep valleys of the hand." | Robert Bly | ||
| a720502 | Det ar en sak att overvinna sin nyfikenhet. En annan att bli helt fri fran den. | Robert Louis Stevenson |