Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

I have something I need to tell you he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. I might be in love with you. He smiles a little. Im waiting until Im sure to tell you though.Thats sensible of you I say smiling too. We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something.I feel his laughter against my side his nose sliding along my jaw his lips pressing my ear.Maybe Im already sure he says and I just dont want to frighten you.I laugh a little. Then you should know better.Fine he says. Then I love you.

I love you like a fat kid loves cake

Whats this he demanded looking from Clary to his companions as if they might know what she was doing there.Its a girl Jace saidrecovering his composure. Surely youve seen girls before Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.

A ladys imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love from love to matrimony in a moment.

Mrs. Mudkin closed her eyes. We should pray.I aint praying Crazy Cora said. Mrs. Mudkin said Lord please bless---I aint praying.--this land and the people who--I aint praying.--have toiled on this earth--Stop that praying.I can pray if I want to.Then be quiet about it.

Ill pray for you.Thats very kind of you.I cant spare you a whole rosary you know. Just a decade. Ive got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week.

People said there had to be a Supreme Being because otherwise how could the universe exist ehAnd of course there clearly had to be said Koomi a Supreme Being. But since the universe was a bit of a mess it was obvious that the Supreme Being hadnt in fact made it. If he had made it he would being Supreme have made a better job of it with far better thought given taking an example at random to things like the design of the common nostril. Or to put it another way the existence of a badly put-together watch proved the existence of a blind watchmaker. You only had to look around to see that there was room for improvement practically everywhere. This suggested that the Universe had probably been put together in a bit of a rush by an underling while the Supreme Being wasnt looking in the same way that Boy Scouts Association minutes are done on office photocopiers all over the country.So reasoned Koomi it was not a good idea to address any prayers to a Supreme Being. It would only attract his attention and might cause trouble.

If you want to save your child from polio you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.

If youre alive kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living if not an entire way of life.