If only we could have picked our family...
Chloe NeillTags: merit
Sometimes hanging out in pajamas with a good book sounded like a phenomenal idea.
Chloe NeillTags: merit
Friends in high places definitely helped- especially if you had enemies in even higher spots.
Chloe NeillTags: merit
When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.
Gene WolfeHe didn’t at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn’t do it — nobody asked him. It was not necessary for the bee to make such a merit of his tastes.
Charles DickensTags: credit merit deserving-merit
And that’s why we’re sending Boobs McGee.”
I slowly swiveled my head to glare at Catcher. “Seriously. You’re, what, twelve now?”
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“Then I guess that settles that,” I agreed. “My boobs and I will go.
I had to fight the urge to turn on him and level my sword at the shrunken black nugget of his heart.
Chloe NeillTags: merit
Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?
Julian BarnesTags: age history philosophy time nostalgia memory personality mellow merit
But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.
Leo TolstoyTags: kindness love morality merit
You can’t yadda yadda yadda nearly biting a fairy
Chloe NeillTags: merit
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