"Harry," cried Dorian Gray, coming over and sitting down beside him, "why is it that I cannot feel this tragedy as much as I want to? I don't think I am heartless. Do you ( Read more... )

"But Ethan hurts me every day with his indifference, his aloofness. I pray, I journal, I speak to him. Not a peep. He's like the popular kids in high school, breezing by in a flash with no eye contact or acknowledgement of my existence."

--Sophie's Bakery for the Broken Hearted, Lolly Winston

The morning came after the day of battle, and it was fair with light clouds and the wind turning westward. Legolas and Gimli were early abroad, and they begged leave to go up into the City; for the were eage to see Merry and Pippin ( Read more... )

'Master Meriadoc,' said Aragorn, 'if you think that I have passed through the mountains and the realm of Gondor with fire and sword to bring herbs to a careless solder who throws away his gear, you are mistaken. If your pack has not been found, then you must send for the herb-master of this House. And he will tell you that he did not know that the ( Read more... )

Meme from rhumba1. Grab the nearest book ( Read more... )

Then she looked up and realised I was watching her. She gave me an ultra-serious look for a moment, and then suddenly stuck her tongue out and crossed her eyes in a totally immature schoolgirl fashion. It made us both burst out laughing ( Read more... )

I stole some stuff which the_gazooni had posted in reply to the question I raised about languages' indequacies. He mentioned how we often neglect that others might understand things differently from us, and this makes translation quite an onerous task. This has also been talked about by Bernard Werber in L'Encyclopedie du Savoir Relatif et Absolu ( The ( Read more... )

Even the simple act which we describe as 'seeing someone we know' is, to some extent, an intellectual process. We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him which we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place. In the end they come ( Read more... )