Being mayor of Empire Falls was a full-time job with a part-time salary,
ilaila13has quoted3 months ago
If chickens had any idea what was in store for them, they’d stay where they were in their eggs.
ilaila13has quoted3 months ago
Good fences make good neighbors.
ilaila13has quoted3 months ago
The terrible truth was that such slender gestures seemed even to Miles, at sixteen, both too much and too little, more than just about everyone else was willing to do but far less than conscience dictated.
ilaila13has quoted3 months ago
it was a lot easier to forget a thousand things you wanted to remember than the one thing you wanted to lose sight of.
ilaila13has quoted3 months ago
Just because things happen slow doesn’t mean you’ll be ready for them.
ilaila13has quoted3 months ago
“Slow” works on an altogether different principle, on the deceptive impression that there’s plenty of time to prepare, which conceals the central fact, that no matter how slow things go, you’ll always be slower.
mecalcaghas quoted2 years ago
The brain and spinal cord are mainly made of fat; the
mecalcaghas quoted2 years ago
type of fat depends on what we eat
mecalcaghas quoted2 years ago
The membranes of cells—their outer envelopes—are made of a double layer of fat. After changing to a diet consisting of different types of fats, there are quite marked changes in the make-up of these cell membranes