You were dancing with Yuki and I looked at you. And you turned away and held her closer. Why did you do that? If you didn't want to hurt me, then why?" He looked away, as though he'd been slapped, but he didn't look guilty. He looked pained. "I closed my eyes," he said, his voice so low and strangled she could hardly hear him. "What?" she asked, not understanding. "Tamani held up a hand and Laurel realized he hadn't finished-he was having trouble speaking at all. "I closed my eyes," he repeated after a few shallow breaths, "and imagined she was you."He looked at her, his face open, his eyes honest, his voice a song of anguish.
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JENNIFER PIKE Their symptoms trigger a self-perpetuating cycle that leads to a downward spiral in their functionin... JENNIFER PIKE Homecoming is a tradition that students look forward to every year. The events are fun, competitive ... JENNIFER PIKE You are not sure what to make of her, whether she is responsible for all this or she's innocent. ROSAMUND PIKE If you honestly feel you have done something so terrible that you cannot be forgiven, then I am will... CHRISTOPHER PIKE A free people, forgetting that it has a soul to be cared for, devotes all its energies to its materi... ALBERT PIKE If a person lacks self-acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others ca... JAMES ALBERT PIKE With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the o... KENNETH L. PIKE If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not p... KENNETH L. PIKE The detached observer's view is one window on the world. KENNETH L. PIKE Feast of James the Apostle Upon a little reflection one can see that no concepts which are restri... KENNETH L. PIKE But since cause and effect is under the personal control of God, He can introduce into the situation... KENNETH L. PIKE Assumptions based on faith are apparently an ever-present component in any system of belief -- wheth... KENNETH L. PIKE Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnograp... KENNETH L. PIKE He may effect us directly by His Spirit, with the force of a thunderbolt, or He may choose to woo us... KENNETH L. PIKE Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 "Help!" "Sorry! 'monmywaytochurch." ... KENNETH L. PIKE I did enter into this relationship thinking she and I could have a life together. I was dead wrong. CHERYL PIKE BARLOW The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is pa... KENNETH L. PIKE Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total cohere... KENNETH L. PIKE That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; ... KENNETH L. PIKE Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. KENNETH L. PIKE Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or ... KENNETH L. PIKE When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. KENNETH L. PIKE The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe unt... KENNETH L. PIKE This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing w... KENNETH L. PIKE Nobody is as good as he thinks he is. KENNETH L. PIKE