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laughter is the perfect medicine for the tortured heart,
A close and loving family is a blessing. But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.
She looked like a dream and talked like a nightmare.
I wondered if excessive optimism could ever qualify as a form of madness.
A beautiful woman, on the other hand, can say just about any damn thing, and men will seriously consider it.
In other words, hold on. What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time. Like life.
“What’s he doing here?” I asked. “Soliciting donations for UNICEF. Plus he wanted our baby.”
“Website design is interesting, dear,” Mello Melodeon assured her, “but it’ll never be as interesting as what Jimmy does. You can’t eat a website.”
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make. There is always cake.
There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.
