Ponyboy describes him as a puppy that has been kicked too many times, he has dark eyes and long dark hair, and he is slight for his age. Johnny has been beaten by his father and emotionally abused by his mother throughout his childhood and adolescence. Because of this, the gang is ...
“I really do not wish to be abusive [to Neo-Darwinians]; but when I think of these poor little dullards, with their precarious hold of just that corner of evolution that a blackbeetle can understand—with their retinue of twopenny-halfpenny Torquemadas wallowing in the infamies of the v...
Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat...
75. “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”–C. S. Lewis Don’t forget to also check out our collection ...
"Gran Chaser could describe Mr Hairs, whose predilection for ageing crones landed him in jail on four occasions." Woodruff & The Schnibble: "Hood Fluff & The Biffo." "The more we think, the more sand comes out of our mouths." "You know what they say about daddys: 'Daddys are here ...
There are in abundance meats and vegetables and fruits of all kinds, pastry and confectionery, colored and shaped in so many ways that it would be impossible to describe them. I see passing before me on the panorama all the kind souls that on Christmas Eve are busying themselves to find ...
"Almost any farmer can describe the blackberry winter. It's that cold spell that comes in May, about three weeks after Spring fever. It comes when blackberries are in bloom and does sometimes actually drop a few real snowflakes into the white flowers. It doesn't bite through to the hard...
... saucy that every one sought diminutives for her; nicknames, fond names, little names, and all sorts of words that tried to describe her charm (and couldn't), so there was Poppet and Smiles and Minx and Rogue and Midget and Ladybird and finally Nan and Nannie by degrees, ...— ...