I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons. - Harrison Ford
My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.
Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.
She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.
She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember.
She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at a time.
She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.
She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.
So that she began to see herself more clearly, as a thin film of dust was wiped from a sheet of glass.
Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.
Sometimes, so much of the difficulty is the question of 'What am I going to write about?' because the world is so vast.
Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.
That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.
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