But this animal’s unadulterated joy in being alive was like a spotlight that pierced Travis’s inner gloom and reminded him that life had a brighter side from which he had long ago turned away.
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Related But he said to his wife, sitting next to him on the couch in the TV room, that rarely had he seen a ... MARK WALLACE This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ... OSHO But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had chan... NICHOLAS SPARKS It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood an... JOHN WILLIAMS She realized in an instant that being around him awakened her, stirring the sediment that had long a... LUNA SAINT CLAIRE It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I ... JOHN GREEN Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief f... J.R.R. TOLKIEN We had eight on the side that he had withdrawn from his life in the Mafia. Four felt he was still in... 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You hear stories about him b... ASHTON KUTCHER Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, only to be followed minutes later by a spe... NICHOLAS SPARKS There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would... GEORGE MACDONALD But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordina... LEO TOLSTOY Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of jo... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of jo... W.B. YEATS She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ... KEN FOLLETT My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn't quite know he was going to turn into the teen idol he turned into. Back then, he had like a... A.J. 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He thought that he had experienced eve... GEORGETTE HEYER David Arroyo was at that time ... a very happy man because he had his family with him. He always tal... LUIS CORREA When I had Richie in Cleveland he did this once, and I told him he looked like a Q-Tip. Maybe when h... MIKE HARGROVE He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing ... JORGE LUIS BORGES Esther so badly wanted to save her father, to bring him back from the half death that had become his... KRYSTAL SUTHERLAND I think we had all turned around and started walking away from that one, and Kollar was going nuts. ... MIKE MARTZ Maybe he was a good man once, this old one, my predecessor, but they had worn him down, in thirty ye... JAMES JONES He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular dis... RICK RIORDAN The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to comman... PAUL BOWLES He led one public life ... but there was a second side, a hidden side to Henry J. Lyons, a side that... ROBERT LEWIS I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being whe... JAMES DASHNER Though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was read... EDITH WHARTON I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he... SAI BABA No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from whi... WOODROW WILSON Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!" In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGau... LYNDON B. JOHNSON What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, which... ST. AUGUSTINE He was an All-American a year ago, but he's had a hard string with illness and other things that hav... DANA SCHWARTING The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I t... DAMON HILL When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always though... ROBIN WILLIAMS A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first ... ELLEN GLASGOW He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspecte... LEO TOLSTOY Cate had told me once, a long time ago, that the only way to survive your past was to find a way to ... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watchin... TOD GOLDBERG After a time he found and opened a book he had been reading that he had expected to end well, a roma... RICHARD FLANAGAN One of the university officers had been assaulted. Somebody had punched him in the face. He was tryi... HOWARD WILLIAMS We always got together on my mom's side and I was about six-years-old. It was the last year my grand... ALAIN VIGNEAULT I had wanted to sing a song with Lee Ann for a while, ... I think she's a great singer, and she alwa... GEORGE STRAIT He read an article that some guy had turned a barn into a hotel. That struck him. He was a lawyer bu... EDDI PARKER There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped... NEIL GAIMAN I owe my Gucci watch to a friend from high school. I had a bet with him a long, long time ago. AARON LOWE I didn't drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a... GARTH RISK HALLBERG I thought it was like a gift from God. I hate that we had the disaster, but it gave us some joy. HARRY BROWN Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, ... WILLIAM FAULKNER When I first saw him, I saw James Dean. He had that T-shirt with the cigarettes rolled up in the sle... CONSTANCE RAPPAPORT You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that... So, what next!?... DEYTH BANGER He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge ... MARIO PUZO I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean... LISA GLATT Although she was ashamed to admit it now, the darkness in him had been the largest part of his allur... J.R. WARD Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera s... GARY COLE He wanted to write someone and demand a refund on his dark side which clearly ought to have irresist... ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that dro... DIANA GABALDON He knew today that his life was forever changed in that one moment and he was clueless as to why or ... P.J. FIALA Perhaps this is something that should have been done long ago, ... It is a time to reflect who he wa... ALAN GOULD I turned around the corner and saw him starting to scramble. The first time I was coming from behind... ANTWAN PEEK .. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating t... MITCH ALBOM Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had ... BRAD GARRETT For the song 'Truth or Consequence,' me and [bassist Mick Morris] had this friend from Salt Lake Cit... JAMES HART The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and... DAMON HILL Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never le... D.H. LAWRENCE Not only had he wanted her in his personal territory, he’d just wanted her with him. Earlier, her ... NALINI SINGH He's had a passionless life. He meets a woman and she's from Humboldt and she sort of sweeps him awa... JASON WEISS He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became... JAMES JOYCE The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the peop... RAY BRADBURY He wasn’t a hero. He wasn’t the man who stepped forward and saved the innocent. He was lost hims... CHRISTINE FEEHAN Jones was a load down low. He is so physical that we had to bang with him and do anything we could t... BRAD BUCKMAN The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body sh... LEO TOLSTOY We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we ha... NELSON MANDELA I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert.... LEV GROSSMAN I watched the black ocean in his eyes and saw this flash behind them and understood what he had mean... T.J. KLUNE He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their exi... C.S. LEWIS The affection in which Princess Diana is still held is remarkable, but I knew Dodi and, far from bei... BILL MITCHELL Goodwill is something you put away like preserves, for a rainy day, for winter, for lean times, and ... REBECCA SOLNIT He was so full of joy. And he had such a lovable spirit. Any time that anyone went over there, he wo... DAISY CASTRO The Vicar’s talk was not always inspiriting: he had escaped being a Pharisee, but he had not escap... GEORGE ELIOT Like James Dean, a death of someone so young gave cult status. He was known as the fittest man alive... BRIAN HARRISON In essence, Dean is paying all that money to someone who is keeping him away from his children. DAWN NELSON They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but ... DAN RATHER
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