But he answered his father, Listen! For all these years I have been working like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your... command; yet you have never given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am that same willing girl and these two anklets... are the same two that went to men for sex. I am the one who's poor now among us womenfolk, our natural-born modesty being our wealth. So, when I straddled him, ashamed when my memory came back, I panicked and recognized my own slender body. First I gave up my masculine ways. Then I gave up on him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everybody comes along at the right time.... Leonardo was lucky because he came along at the right time. Oscar Wilde was lucky beca...use he came at the right time--if he hadn't gone to court and been martyred he wouldn't be such a cult hero now. Or Jesus Christ--if he came back now he would really be up the shit because there's no capital punishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. Small went to the kitchen for her pocketbook And came back to the living room with a peculiar look... And the coffee pot. Pocketbook. Pot. Pot. Pocketbook.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid ...of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And what came back to mind Was not its previous habit, but a blind... Astonishing remorse for things now ended That of themselves were also rich and splendid (But unsupported broke, and were not mended)....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The northern sky rose high and black Over the proud unfruitful sea,... East and west the ships came back Happily or unhappily....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a heavy power in her eyes which laid hold of his whole being, as if he had drunk some powerful drug. He had been feeling... weak and done before. Now the life came back into him, he felt delivered from his own fretted, daily self.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Calico Pie, The little Birds fly... Down to the calico tree, Their wings were blue, And they sang "Tilly-loo!" Till away they flew-- And they never came back to me!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »