He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on to you and telling you to stay in the pond, everything's going to be all right.
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Related He looked disheveled and disreputable, like an outlaw on the run. A smile came to his lips, while he... LISA KLEYPAS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never ... BLAKE CROUCH He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI When you're competing with such bigger companies and trying to fight so many battles, you're still a... MARLA BACKER A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Is that a yes?" he asked, pushing his fingers through my hair, fanning it out around my shoulders an... BECCA FITZPATRICK Where are you going?” He looked over his shoulder at me. “If I stay, you won’t get any sl... SARAH J. MAAS Some fish get caught for biting and some fish just get caught for being in the wrong part of the pon... CLARE VANDERPOOL There's an old saying in the Two Rivers" Rand said dryly. "'The louder a man tells you he's honest, ... ROBERT JORDAN Inej turned to go. Kaz seized her hand, keeping it on the railing. He didn't look at her. "Stay", he... LEIGH BARDUGO God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond. JOHNNIE DENT JR. I was very keen for Dennis to stay but he came in on Saturday morning and said he didn't think it wa... GEORGE BURLEY To me she looked like a lily, an innocence floating in the pond! AVIJEET DAS You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and pr... THOMAS H. COOK In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a... VICTORIA BECKHAM If you haven't guessed it already," I said, something fervent and resonating slipping into my tone, ... BECCA FITZPATRICK I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned ... NADINE VELAZQUEZ My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying "I love you." His love had to do with th... BILL COSBY Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized ... LEONARD LAUDER Science can't prove everything! Say, a scientist saw a fish splashing in the pond. On the next day h... MD. ZIAUL HAQUE Mendanbar took a deep breath. “You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me.” This wasn�... PATRICIA C. WREDE He had no fear and he took the shots and drilled them. In life, you are going to be challenged and w... ED HOOI He played well, ... You have your ups and you have your downs, and he had more ups than downs. That'... AARON GLENN In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can't make him drink. My way is ... BIKRAM CHOUDHURY I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w... C. JOYBELL C. Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha... CRAIG GROESCHEL I was astonished to see Adrian watching me, a look of contentment on his face. His eyes seemed to st... RICHELLE MEAD No sex?" He looked at me in disbelief. "Well if you can't have ze sex, what can you do?" ... ELNA BAKER Sure you are," Jack replied. He sashayed up next to me, and yes, it was a sashay, he was far too dam... CANDICE GILMER The Fisherman Piping
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Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
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JACK KEROUAC For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze... JACK KEROUAC Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana ... JACK KEROUAC His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because... JACK KEROUAC Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree. JACK KEROUAC And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was th... JACK KEROUAC I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do. JACK KEROUAC I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my f... JACK KEROUAC What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't k... JACK KEROUAC We agreed to love each other madly. JACK KEROUAC My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and ask... JACK KEROUAC So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, ... JACK KEROUAC But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wa... JACK KEROUAC Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't... JACK KEROUAC Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, th... JACK KEROUAC And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles fol... JACK KEROUAC The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I w... JACK KEROUAC ...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it w... JACK KEROUAC ...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left ... JACK KEROUAC ...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I ... JACK KEROUAC I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’... JACK KEROUAC The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is ... JACK KEROUAC I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA ... JACK KEROUAC He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows st... JACK KEROUAC And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show... JACK KEROUAC Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by ... JACK KEROUAC