Kohli Quotes

Nah, walau tiga suku bangsa ini punya kampung sendiri, kampung Cina, kampung Dayak, dan kampung Melayu, kehidupan di Pontianak berjalan damai. Cobalah datang ke salah satu rumah makan terkenal di kota Pontianak, kalian dengan mudah akan menemukan tiga suku ini sibuk berbual, berdebat, lantas tertawa bersama—bahkan saling traktir. “Siapa di sini yang berani bilang Koh Acong bukan penduduk asli Pontianak?” demikian Pak Tua bertanya takzim.

It is The Way,” he said softly. “Take only what ye need. When ye take the deer, do not take the best. Take the smaller and the slower and then the deer will grow stronger and always give you meat. Pa-koh, the panther, knows and so must ye.” And

Creativity finds its own creator.

Neither happiness nor sadness are ever done with us. They are always passing by.

Gidişat böyle dedi. Yalnızca gereksinim duyduklarını al. Geyik alıyorsan, en iyisini alma. En küçük ve en yavaş olanını seç, o zaman geyik daha güçlü olur ve her zaman sana et verir. Pa-koh (panter) bunu biliyor. Sen de bilmelisin!

Koh demonstrating how to make a toga of a bed-sheet and sending Blue and Gansey into a cluttered bedroom to change. It was Gansey politely turning his back as she undressed and then Blue turning hers – maybe turning hers. It was Blue’s shoulder and her collarbone and her legs and her throat and her laugh her laugh her laugh. He couldn’t stop looking at her, and here, it didn’t matter, because no one here cared that they were together. Here, he could play his fingers over her fingers as they stood close, she could lean her cheek on his bare shoulder, he could hook his ankle playfully in hers, she could catch herself with an arm around his waist. Here he was unbelievably greedy for that laugh.

Nobody loves you like your mother and father. Not your husband, and not your children. While your parents are alive, eat as much of their love as you can, so it can sustain you for the rest of your life.

A heart that has never fallen in love is nothing but a pacemaker.

The present is the revenge of the past.

The best thing about writing is the reader

I write best when "I" am not writing.

Our feelings are different (because our thoughts are different). Because our wants are different. Actually, everyone's the same. Our sadness, sometimes, our joys.

As a minority, no sooner do you learn to polish and cherish one chip on your shoulder, it’s taken off you and swapped out for another. The jewellery of your struggles is forever on loan, like the Koh-i-Noor. You are intermittently handed this Necklace of labels to hang around your neck,

Those who dont have a brain, think from the heart

What we see changes according to what we look for.

He delighted Murs in history with his focused study on the spread of personal electronics through the first world; he aggravated Adler in administration with his focused study on the disparity between Aglionby's publicity budget versus their scholarship budget. He screamed himself hoarse at the sidelines of Koh's soccer match (they lost). He spray-painted the words PEACE, BITCHES on the Dumpster behind a gelato parlor.

You know my grandmothers,” I said, and pointed at my nose, a habit I had picked up when I lived in Japan. “I’m an accumulation of their lives. Whatever I say or do now can give relief to the past—and to them. I don’t believe they’re ever gone.

Good and Bad is inside everybody. The difference is that the Good remember when they have also been bad and the Bad remember when they have only been good.

A plastic surgeon should never tell anybody to age gracefully. Rather his motto should be to make people age youthfully.

If the love is true, it will wait until the dream becomes a reality. True love also gives strength to a dream.

When you feel a little better, if you want to talk to Mommy again, call me. I’ll be waiting.

I’m calling you because I miss you,” she said. “Did you pick up because you miss me too?

When you age, wrinkles don’t make you older. They make you look more like yourself,” she warned me. “Everything comes to the surface eventually.

They say a person has so unique a set of meanings we ought to be incapable of understanding each other, yet we speak and teach as if by magic.

While my mother liked cleanliness, I was satisfied to have my presence linger.

Koh-i-noor in a limestone-quarry as an article of that character

Maybe we need to give life a chance, for it is just waiting to be beckoned.

There is a Korean belief that you are born the parent of the one you hurt most.

Koh Boonsoon did not resent her husband for having neither the ability nor the will to provide for his family. She truly believed he was a decent husband to her for not sleeping around and not hitting her.

To reduce a library to simple architecture, bricks and mortar is a mistake. Similarly, to suggest a library is defined by the books on the shelf is erroneous. Libraries are very special spaces, spaces where people come together in separate but joint pursuits of knowledge, of learning. Libraries are the heartbeats of communities.

She truly believed he was a decent husband to her for not sleeping around and not hitting her. Of the four sons she raised thus, Jiyoung’s father was the only one to carry out his duties as a son in her old age. Unwanted by her ungrateful children, Koh Boonsoon rationalized this sad outcome with an incoherent logic: “Still, I get to eat warm food my son made for me, and sleep under warm covers my son arranged for me because I had four sons. You have to have at least four sons.

What I had meant to say in the kitchen was that I had loved fish since I was little—white bite, crispy skin. I had been waiting for it so long that the picture of soft flesh decomposed and left bones for a fossil. When I had argued in the kitchen, I was arguing about what was lost to me. Like how I could not read the letters because of the old water stains that had spread ink across the bottom of the page. The problem was not the damage but the cause. I recognized the tears my younger self had wept while touching the shapes on the paper.

Never forget,' says Sugar Daddy, 'we are a nation built on sugar. It is our history and it is the source of our prosperity, now and in the future.' This is true. Our entire nation sits on reclaimed land made from sugar. Ours is an island that rose out of the sea, built on a hard core of toffee.

YOU LOVE.....YOU LOSE...... STILL YOU LIVE....

My idea of working for a living is not going to office and earning a salary. It is to build a log house and catch my own fish and till some soil.

When you feel small in a God made world, it's called realization and when you feel small in a man made world, it's called exploitation.

I don't do charity, I pay taxes instead.

Anyone can do your duty. Your responsibility, only you can. A duty you love to do responsibly, is a privelege.

Dreams that we see today, make the memories that we live tomorrow, And, memories that we remember, make what dreams we see today.

Nights would have been expressionless had it not been for the moon. The moon, I say, is a mood.

Whirling of her skirts, a chequered carpet beneath- sunset dawns outside.

Creativity is the only way a man can ever experience motherhood.

Hope is the single most defining as well as the single most disturbing human emotion.

Don’t just live to narrate the stories of your cowardice. Someone will tell a better story of how you died rather than you telling your children how you lived.

Your world, your universe, the people and situation around you, are all an enigma. You only are the only truth, but... you have to discover yourself.

आवेश से बचो वत्स! हम विचार कर रहे हैं; और विचार के लिए आवेश हलाहल विष है।

उसे नीति और न्याय का परामर्श दूँगा। न्याय, धर्म का दूसरा नाम है माता! वह न्याय की रक्षा करेगा, तो न्याय उसकी रक्षा कर लेगा।

जब दृष्टि में सिद्धान्त नहीं, व्यक्ति होता है, तो निर्णय न्याय के आधार पर नहीं, व्यक्ति की इच्छा के आधार पर होते हैं।

जिसका निर्णय न्याय है, वचन विधान है और चिन्तन त्रिकाल का सत्य है—उस व्यक्ति को ग्वाला कहकर उसकी उपेक्षा का प्रयत्न सचमुच क्षुद्रता का प्रदर्शन है।

Your brother can be mean only when he is unsure of himself.

You wouldn’t understand,” she said, and frowned. “My daughter teaches people how to let go.

In Buddhist tradition, forty-nine is the number of days a soul wanders the earth for answers before the afterlife.

Solitude was an aspect of my life, though it seemed I could forget it with laughter.

I ignored my desk and watched the storefronts and houses regurgitate objects through their doorways.

जिस राजसभा में ऋषि का सम्मान नहीं होता, वहाँ न धर्म होता है न न्याय!

प्रकृति के निर्माण की समकक्षता मनुष्य नहीं कर सकता। मनुष्य तो प्रकृति का अनुकरण करता है।

Some believe that if we’re not smart like your mother and brother, we can’t accomplish things. But we can if we are: one, funny, and two, humble.

हमारे भीतर के गुण ही बाह्य सृष्टि में से अपने समतुल्य गुणों को आकृष्ट करते हैं। यदि हम अपने भीतर से रजोगुण तथा तमोगुण सर्वथा समाप्त कर दें, तो बाह्य सृष्टि के ये गुण हमारी ओर आकृष्ट नहीं होते, न हम पर प्रभाव डालने की बात सोचते

मेरी दो बातें स्मरण रखो पुत्र! और उनपर विश्वास भी करो। पहली यह कि ईश्वरीय नियमों का जब तक स्वयं अनुभव न करो, दूसरे व्यक्ति के कहने मात्र से उसका विश्वास मत करो। दूसरी यह कि, यदि तुम वस्तुतः जल में स्थित हो, तब ही तैरने के लिए हाथ-पैर मारो।

What was seminoma, I asked Dr Ashish at one point. A rarest of rare kind of germ cell tumour, he explained, a manageable tumour. I asked him to explain further and this was his reply: Look, he said, your tumour may not be Sachin Tendulkar, but Virat Kohli it is. He can also be dangerous and after all you do need to get him out. I still laugh at this analogy. Later one day I remembered to tell Cheeku about this and he couldn’t believe how much respect the doctor had given him.

If you have something better to be doing than poetry, which means almost anything else, that is the thing you should be doing right now,” he said to the class. Then, he turned to me. “There’s nowhere else you could be?” “No,” I said to him. “Nowhere.” “You made the right choice. Poetry is better than nothing,” he said to me. “But you have nothing to fall back on.” He was careful not to ask any more questions. He must have sensed I was embarrassed to speak in front of the others, who were confident and sharp. The professor took out the napkin and let it open in his hand. “I’m going to be honest with all of you.” The room looked at each other. The professor said to the class, “If you have something else, and you can do something else, then don’t let it go. Most of you will go back to doing that thing.

16 November 2013, my cricketing journey finally came to an end at the Wankhede Stadium. After somehow managing to complete my farewell speech, I was having a conversation with my family, trying to soak in every moment, when my team-mate Virat Kohli walked up to me. He said, ‘Paaji aapne kaha tha aap ko yaad dilane ke liye ki aapko pitch pe jana hain.’ (You asked me to remind you that you had to go to the pitch one final time.) To be honest, I hadn’t forgotten; I was just trying to put the moment off for a little longer. It was to be my final visit to

आश्रम में तुम्हें धर्म भी मिल सकता है और न्याय-बोध भी; किन्तु न्याय तो राजसभा में ही मिल पायेगा। न्याय के साथ दण्ड-विधान भी जुड़ा है। न्याय के लिए दुष्ट-दलन करना पड़ता है, धर्म के लिए आत्म-दमन! न्याय माँगा जाता है, धर्म साधा जाता है। न्याय में अधिकार है, धर्म में दायित्व। धर्म ऋषि देता है और न्याय राजा!

मोह मानसिक रोग है पुत्र! आत्मा का कलुष! यदि वह मात्र साधारण भ्रम है तो प्रबोधन से ही मिट जायेगा; किन्तु यदि वह अत्यन्त सघन है, तो मोह की सघनता के अनुपात में ही पीड़ा अथवा दण्ड पा कर ही वह छूटे तो छूटे; उनकी आकांक्षापूर्ति से तुम उनका मोह नष्ट नहीं कर सकते। यदि उनकी इच्छापूर्ति होती रहेगी, तो उनका लोभ बढ़ेगा, मोह सघन होगा,

It was this: Koh demonstrating how to make a toga of a bedsheet and sending Blue and Gansey into a cluttered bedroom to change. It was Gansey politely turning his back as she undressed and then Blue turning hers--maybe turning hers. It was Blue's shoulder and her collarbone and her legs and her throat and her laugh her laugh her laugh. He couldn't stop looking at her, and here, it didn't matter, because no one here cared that they were together. Here, he could play his fingers over her fingers as they stood close, she could lean her cheek on his bare shoulder, he could hook his ankle playfully in hers, she could catch herself with an arm around his waist. Here he was unbelievably greedy for that laugh.

Someday, somewhere, sometime, Life will bring your loved ones back, When you will be least expecting them. And when your time is right, Speak out those three little words. Don’t waste time in thinking. Follow your intuition as it knows what’s right for you. Life is short; You might never get another chance. Speak up.Right now. Right here. Confess your likings. Confess your feelings. Confess your love!

I'm jealous, and i am because you give yourself to people who don't know your worth, to people who don't appreciate you or your time. and it makes me wonder, you know? why? why in the world would such a beautiful person put themselves through so much pain? I don't get it. you have everything in front of you. everyone you need, people who adore you and love you. people who you've over looked. open your eyes, sweet pea, the people you spend most of your time thinking of, stressing over, don't want you. hell, they barely even notice when you're not around and still, you want to believe that it's the kind of love you deserve, the kind of attention you should chase because it's all you've ever known but it's wrong, all of it is. you don't deserve to believe that you need to have people that shatter you to feel alive. you don't deserve that kind of broken love. you deserve sad songs with happy endings. you deserve the deepest love, someone who'll look at you and echo your name forever.

Roth blinked, then nodded slowly. “I hate making them. I haven’t gotten where I am on the job by indulging my temper or apologizing for it. Neither, I imagine, have you. Women are still more closely scrutinized in the department and more strictly judged.” “That may be true, Captain. I don’t let it concern me.” “Then you’re a better woman than I, Dallas, or a great deal less ambitious. Because it burns the living hell out of me.” She inhaled, hissed the breath out through her teeth. “My coming at you as I have has been an emotional reaction, an indulgence again, that was both inappropriate and ill-advised. I’m going to tell you that I overreacted to Kohli’s death because I liked him, very much. I believe I overreacted to Mills because I disliked him. Very much.” She glanced back at the car. “He was a son of a bitch, a mean-spirited man who made no secret that, in his opinion, women should be having babies, cooking pies, and not wearing a badge. He disliked blacks, Jews, Asians . . . hell, he disliked everyone who wasn’t just what he was: an overfed white male. But he was my cop, and I want whoever opened him up that way.

FOOD Adobo (uh-doh-boh)--- Considered the Philippines' national dish, it's any food cooked with soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, and black peppercorns (though there are many regional and personal variations) Bibingka (bih-bing-kah)--- Lightly sweetened rice cake, commonly consumed around Christmas. There are many varieties, but the most common is baked or grilled in a banana leaf-lined mold and topped with sliced duck eggs, butter, sugar, and/or coconut. Buko (boo-koh)--- Young coconut Champorado (chahm-puh-rah-doh)--- Sweet chocolate rice porridge Lambanog (lahm-bah-nohg)--- Filipino coconut liquor Lumpia (loom-pyah)--- Filipino spring rolls (many variations) Matamis na bao (mah-tah-mees nah bah-oh)--- Coconut jam (also known as minatamis na bao) Pandan (pahn-dahn)--- Tropical plant whose fragrant leaves are commonly used as a flavoring in Southeast Asia. Often described as a grassy vanilla flavor with a hint of coconut. Pandesal (pahn deh sahl)--- Lightly sweetened Filipino rolls topped with breadcrumbs (also written pan de sal) Patis (pah-tees)--- Fish sauce Pinipig (pih-nee-pig)--- Young glutinous rice that's been pounded flat, then toasted. Looks similar to Rice Krispies. Salabat (sah-lah-baht)--- Filipino ginger tea Tuyo (too-yoh)--- Dried, salted fish (usually herring) Ube (oo-beh)--- Purple yam

मुनि बोले, “अपनी वर्तमान बुद्धि को सृष्टि का अन्तिम सत्य मत मानो। उसका विकास और संस्कार करने का प्रयत्न करो। जो सत्य दूसरों द्वारा अनुभूत है, उसके अनुभव का प्रयत्न करो। अपनी बुद्धि को इन्द्रियों का दास मत बनने दो। तब तुम देखोगे कि वस्तुतः तुम्हें उतनी वस्तुओं की आवश्यकता नहीं है, जितनी तुमने एकत्रित कर ली हैं। यह तुम्हारी आवश्यकता नहीं है, जो तुम्हें अर्जन और संचय के लिए प्रेरित करती है—यह तुम्हारा मोह है। यदि इस मोह को तुम पहचान पाओगे, तो उसे त्याग भी पाओगे। मोह से मुक्त होते ही तुम अनुभव करोगे कि जीवन मात्रा, धन के अर्जन के लिए नहीं है। आवश्यकता भर धन अर्जित करना सबके लिए अनिवार्य हो सकता है; किन्तु उसकी एक सीमा है। वहाँ पहुँच कर व्यक्ति यह निर्णय करता है कि अब वह अतिरिक्त धन अर्जित करने के लिए कोई भी कार्य नहीं करेगा।

I wrote about a place called Alki Beach. When I had first crossed the bridge into West Seattle, I could see the city skyline over Puget Sound. I stood on a strip of purple-gray beach sand. A pier house sold hairy mussels and one-hour bike rentals. Copper and metal signs whipped against the wind. Old couples toted bouquets under wooden pergolas. Those singing and strolling on the beach eventually curved around the bend toward the northern arc and out of sight. I wanted to live here by its waters, read its signs, admire the wind as one admires an old friend. The skyscrapers across the water might be a bracelet across my wrist—the Ferris wheel, city stadium, ships in the harbor. I had never known that joy was a practice the way poetry was a practice. Somebody asked if they could

Keep your fans close and your critics closer

Today, one must pay for a world where there is nothing to buy.

Only a self-learnt man can reach others.

was sitting with Sophie Koh, who is awesome and has been my one and only best friend since my original best friend, Meredith Timms, turned into a total Fembot and I had to take a vacation from not only being her best friend, but from even being her friend at all. Which is very sad and tragic, but is a whole

I know you are strong and smart, you sprinkled my life with joy and love. After so long i realised about happiness. You are the cheered and motivated me to never give up about challenges j use to face daily.. yaar we use to get issues but everytime we overcome them more and better bonding. Your love give me power to enrich to modernize my lifestyle. Coz of you know i am known as more smarter than past i try each day my best to improve so you can feel more proud. You really changed my life alot. Yes i am lil dumb n silly, i am trying my best not to do things that hurts you. Its dust that needs some time get removed fully.. you are my life i swear.. i love you so much.. i really mean it.. i promise you i will always treat you as my Queen during my whole life. My biggest fear is losing you. My heart is completely your snd only yours.. i never wanna miss any chance where i can say i love you.. i promise i will always stand with you holding your hands either its bad or good time. You are my priority and always going to remain same for my life time. I promise i will share my each and every little or big feelings with you.. i promise i trust you duri whole my life. I literally crave you, your time. I am really not good in pickup line. I am bored guy but trust me my love for you is really pure. I wanna spend my whole life with you. I want your mini me to play with me and i want to say her proudly how much i love you.. You are not one in a million kind of girl.. You are once in lifetime kind of girl and i feel so blessed i have you in my life..i am not perfect. We are going to argue sometimes & have our problems but I'm never going to stop loving you. Each wave gonna make you love more than past.. I love you till infinity...

I Love listening to your feelings without getting angry and frustrated. I makes it safe for you to express yourself. I will choose you, even when you make me mad. My love for you won't fade simply because we are angry. I know we will fight, we will be frustrated, we will be human. Still, I will go to battle for you. Still, I will choose you again and again. I will choose you. And keep choosing you forever, every single day. I Love you..

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Their best chance for a happy adulthood lies in discovering and nurturing their strengths, cultivating flexibility in the face of obstacles, and developing the tools to forge lasting relationships. Following

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Virat Kohli has risen.

While my mother liked cleanliness, I was satisfied to have my presence linger.

When you age, wrinkles don’t make you older. They make you look more like yourself,” she warned me. “Everything comes to the surface eventually.

How many of us have walked through fires again and again, and yet we’ve never taken time to pause and celebrate the resilience developed from it?

The People of Ice Planet Barbarians As of the end of Barbarian’s Mate (suggested pronunciations in parenthesis) AT THE MAIN TRIBAL CAVE CAVE 1 VEKTAL (Vehk-tall) - The chief of the sa-khui. Mated to Georgie. GEORGIE – Human woman (and unofficial leader of the human females). Has taken on a dual-leadership role with her mate. TALIE (Tah-lee) – Their baby daughter. CAVE 2 Maylak (May-lack) – Tribe Healer. Mated to Kashrem and currently pregnant with child. Kashrem (Cash-rehm) - Her mate, also a leather-worker. Esha (Esh-uh) – Their young daughter. CAVE 3 Sevvah (Sev-uh) – Tribe elder, mother to Aehako, Rokan, and Sessah Oshen (Aw-shen) – Tribe elder, her mate Sessah – (Ses-uh) - Their youngest son Rokan – (Row-can) – Their oldest son. Adult male hunter. CAVE 4 Warrek (War-ehk) – Tribal hunter. Eklan (Ehk-lan) – His father. Elder. CAVE 5 Ereven (Air-uh-ven) Hunter, mated to Claire Claire – mated to Ereven, currently pregnant CAVE 6 Liz – Raahosh’s mate and huntress. Raahosh (Rah-hosh) – Her mate. A hunter and brother to Rukh. Raashel (Rah-shel) – Their daughter. CAVE 7 Stacy – Mated to Pashov. Has an unnamed child. Pashov (Pah-showv) – son of Kemli and Borran, brother to Farli and Salukh. Mate of Stacy, and has an unnamed child. CAVE 8 Nora – Mate to Dagesh, mother to twins Anna and Elsa. Dagesh (Dah-zzhesh) (the g sound is swallowed) – Her mate. A hunter. Anna & Elsa – Their infant twin daughters. CAVE 9 Harlow – Mate to Rukh. ‘Mechanic’ to the Elders’ Cave. Spends 75% of her time there with her family. Rukh (Rookh) – Former exile and loner. Original name Maarukh. (Mah-rookh). Brother to Raahosh. Mate to Harlow. Rukhar (Roo-car) – Their infant son. CAVE 10 Megan – Mate to Cashol. Extremely pregnant. Cashol – (Cash-awl) – Mate to Megan. Hunter. CAVE 11 Marlene (Mar-lenn) – Human mate to Zennek. Has unnamed child. French. Zennek – (Zehn-eck) – Mate to Marlene. Has unnamed child. CAVE 12 Ariana – Human female. Mate to Zolaya. Unnamed child. Zolaya (Zoh-lay-uh) – Hunter and mate to Ariana. Unnamed child. CAVE 13 Tiffany – Human female. Mated to Salukh and newly pregnant. Salukh - Salukh (Sah-luke) – Hunter. Son of Kemli and Borran, brother to Farli, Pashov and Dagesh. CAVE 14 Aehako – (Eye-ha-koh) – Acting leader of the South cave. Mate to Kira, father to Kae. Son of Sevvah and Oshen, brother to Rokan and Sessah. Kira – Human woman, mate to Aehako, mother of Kae. Was the first to be abducted by aliens and wore an ear-translator for a long time. Kae (Ki –rhymes with ‘fly’) – Their newborn daughter. CAVE 15 Kemli – (Kemm-lee) Female elder, mother to Salukh, Pashov and Farli Borran – (Bore-awn) Her mate, elder Farli – (Far-lee) Their teenage daughter. Her brothers are Salukh and Pashov. She has a pet dvisti named Chahm-pee (Chompy). CAVE 16 Drayan (Dry-ann) – Elder. Drenol (Dree-nowl) – Elder. CAVE 17 Vadren (Vaw-dren) – Elder. Vaza (Vaw-zhuh) – Widower and elder. Loves to creep on the ladies. CAVE 18 Asha (Ah-shuh) – Mated to Hemalo. No living child. Hemalo (Hee-mah-lo) – Mated to Asha. CAVE 19 Bek – (BEHK) – Hunter. Hassen (Hass-en) – Hunter. Harrec (Hair-ek) – Hunter. Taushen (Tow –rhymes with cow- shen) – Hunter. CAVE 20 Josie – Human woman and last one to resonate. Haeden (Hi-den) – Hunter. Previously resonated to Zalah but she died (along with his khui) in the khui-sickness before resonance could be completed. Now mated to Josie

Privacy is the shadow of grief.

Step 1: Intro “Is this Nancy Kowalczik? Koh - wal - chik.” “Yes” “Hey, It’s Justin Michael from Acme Corp.” Step 2: Route “Just curious... Who’s in charge of your CX strategy?” “Why, what’s this about?” “I have some CX tech but don’t want to waste your time... just curious who heads up CX, does that roll up to you?” Step 3: Ruin (Peel the Onion) “Yes” “How do you do that now? Do you handle it internally or work with a 3rd party?

In some ways we freed ourselves only to imprison others. As humankind, we agreed freedom is a resource with a controlled, limited supply.

I comfort Henry to soothe his need for his mother, and soothe my need for mine. How many times would Henry have to feel discomfort before he understood me? Why do I want him, just a baby, to meet me where no one else can - a baby I carry in my arms like a Bible?

Morioka reimen summoned for Jennie what she imagined as the cocoon taste of the world she had left behind, like the wallpaper of hand-drawn flowers at her apartment outside Pyongyang, coated with a patina throughout the years. The apartment and its wallpaper conjured the carrel of lives that passed through, and the sharp taste inside the steel bowl reflected an impossible condition of life, when all that toughness and suspicion had come down on her so young she had little memory of her childhood, except how one can cry from a thousand eyes, how in the midst of human destruction, full-toned voices broke into song, each of them apart from and a part of longing and hesitation and indignation, roiling to an intensity of hope.

People with high moral authority are dangerous," Jennie said into my ear, her words like silk spilling out of a magician's hat. "Their egos depend on their ability to see themselves as moral, so they become dictators just as quickly as they become leaders.

By an early age, I could read and write in six languages. I found a tool - an ink brush, a twig, or my stub finger - and used it to draw a character on parchment, dirt, or air. When one line touched another, my heart reached my fingertips to impart meaning. At five, it was for pleasure that I left words all over town: on a tree, I carved 'tree'; in the river, I spelled 'river' in pebbles; on my mother's dress, I inked 'dress.' At some point, my mother set me down and didn't pick me up again. On my mother's grave, I wrote 'grave.

The desire to be rebellious fades with the desire to belong.

Holy, holy, holy”, seems written on every page. To talk of comparing the Bible with other “sacred books” so-called, such as the Koran, the Shasters, or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might as well compare the sun with a rushlight, or Skiddaw with a mole hill, or St. Paul’s with an Irish hovel, or the Portland vase with a garden pot, or the Koh-i-noor diamond with a bit of glass.

Enlightenment is when a laptop comes to know that it is a laptop.

When you know yourself, mirrors turn to glass.

In November 2003, the tobacco industry did agree to cease advertising in school library editions of four magazines with a large youth readership (Time, People, Sports Illustrated, and Newsweek) (“Tobacco Ads,” 2005)”, but the industry continued for a while to target youth with ads in adult magazines with a high youth readership (Alpert, Koh, & Connolly, 2008).

She pulls me further down. More trapped souls reach out to us, dressed in clothes from decades past. The girl ignores them as we descend along the timeline – decade by decade – towards the birth of the island.

There is no right or wrong, no good or bad, only natural and unnatural, only cause and consequence.

English. That was where I met him.

Dear family, I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine