“At least she was charming, she assured herself. But charm was thin compensation for a life of constant, lurking terror.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“I don't like you anymore," she announced.
"You don't like anything, Natasha."
It was true. One day, as a challenge, she set herself the task of writing down everything she didn't like. She filled an entire copybook with her tiny, hateful handwriting.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“She wanted to tell the truth and also she wanted to hurt him which was, occasionally, the same thing.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“Let me tell you about my childhood."
"Natasha, please . . . You have to rise above your circumstances."
"I'm not a character in one of your films. It's not that easy."
"You must try."
"What if I don't want to?”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“Paul preached the mystery of the indwelling Christ as 'Christ in you, the hope and the Glory.' Those who cannot, who will not, understand this mystery will remain babes in Christ, if that. They cannot follow in his footsteps to become bodhisattvas, world saviors and quickening spirits.”
Source: The Mystic's Path Home: Teachings of the Ascended Masters
“Everybody with their own solitary pains, their own endless private afflictions, but nobody looking anybody directly in the eye and asking what they were. Let's turn up the music and pretend we're having a hell of a time in here.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“She considered the possibility that, after a long wait, she was finally falling apart.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“I don't like anybody my own age.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“Their relationship was even less pleasant than she thought it was.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“Their relationship was destroyed beyond repair.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time