Where Books and Readers Come Together
“She was a stone-faced statue when Horace shut the door and locked it. He walked down the hall, locked the door to the front of the chamber, went upstairs, and made himself some bacon and eggs for breakfast.”
“They could not feel my anguish nor see the concern in my eyes. They would wake up in the morning as if nothing had happened and make their breakfasts and go to work or school or take care of their children as if the day were like any other. But it wouldn’t be, and I knew it, regardless of what greeted me ahead.”
“And she was tragical only in the sense that she was great, for she loved to play on the side of Victory.”
“I am nature’s greatest miracle.”
A superbly written piece of brutal heartlessness and blatant betrayals on all sides.
Here is a hauntingly good reading of “This Moment is Your Life.”
“The drudgery of the lives of most of the people who have to support families — well, it’s a life-extinguishing affair.”
A Life in Cartoons
“Her stare often moved me into speechlessness, captivated me into forgetfulness, and I longed to know what she was thinking without her ever having to say a single word. But I knew such things were impossible for me.”
A story
“Our laws are enacted and altered by human determination, and within their secular jurisdiction each of us is free to seek his own destiny, his own truth, to quest for this or for that and to find it through his own doing.”
“Small minds cannot grasp great ideas.”
A story
A collection of stories from men and women who either read Dr. Gray’s Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus or attended his conferences in order to improve their relationships.
