We lived in Little Elm many years ago, from 1963 to 1975, and I continue to reside close to Little Elm with my brother John. We have a lot of old friends here, and they call me on a daily basis. It hurts my heart to tell them that I really don't know anything else.


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The two horsewomen of the apocalypse still win, despite their dwindling numbers.
MELINA MARCHETTA
Come here,” she says.
“No, you come here.”
“I said it first.”
“Rock paper...
MELINA MARCHETTA
How would you like it if I said to you, 'It kills me to say this, but you're actually a tiny bit bea...
MELINA MARCHETTA
And if I get a little chemically imbalanced in the head, like we all know I tend to get sometimes, a...
MELINA MARCHETTA
She's tired and leans her head on his shoulder, which is the resting place for all their heads, but ...
MELINA MARCHETTA
Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Ja...
MELINA MARCHETTA
...women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're ...
MELINA MARCHETTA
Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? ...
MELINA MARCHETTA
He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days b...
MELINA MARCHETTA
I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I ...
MELINA MARCHETTA
Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of...
MELINA MARCHETTA
Maybe memories should be left the way they are.
MELINA MARCHETTA
What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell hi...
MELINA MARCHETTA
Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.
MELINA MARCHETTA
He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.
MELINA MARCHETTA
Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis t...
MELINA MERCOURI
The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would...
MELINA MARCHETTA
Do you think I don't want him to be gone more than you do? I do. Because I need to know that I can s...
MELINA MARCHETTA
And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. B...
MELINA MARCHETTA
I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develo...
MELINA MARCHETTA
My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To...
MELINA MARCHETTA
Guess what?' Fitz said.
'I don't know,' Jude said. 'What? Narnie smiled?' He glanced at her for...
MELINA MARCHETTA
What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others.
"I...
MELINA MARCHETTA
If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the be...
MELINA MARCHETTA
No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I...
MELINA MARCHETTA
These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell...
MELINA MARCHETTA
Never,' he tells me in a tone full of ice, 'underestimate who or what I care for.
MELINA MARCHETTA
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.
MELINA MARCHETTA
From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.
MELINA MARCHETTA
Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.
MELINA MARCHETTA
Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?
MELINA MARCHETTA
He stops and looks at me. 'I'm here because of you. You're my priority. Your happiness, in some fuck...
MELINA MARCHETTA
Hold my hand because I might disappear.
MELINA MARCHETTA
One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left beh...
MELINA MARCHETTA
We just have to learn to meet each other halfway okay?
MELINA MARCHETTA
This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. H...
MELINA MARCHETTA
Stop. Revive. Survive
MELINA MARCHETTA
I don't really pay a whole lot of attention to the numbers and the things that bear out during the d...
MELINA KENNEDY
From the stage Ben catches my eye. "This is for them, Taylor," he calls out as they begin to play. I...
MELINA MARCHETTA
He took her face in his bloody hands. 'I'll come and find you wherever you are. I'll not stop breath...
MELINA MARCHETTA
I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. T
rang you over and over again and you woul...
MELINA MARCHETTA
I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. I rang you over and over again and you would nev...
MELINA MARCHETTA
I just stare at him. I want to ask him a thousand questions, but I can tell he doesn't want to be as...
MELINA MARCHETTA
They have a quick verbal exchange but only get to cover the alphabet from A to F, outdoing each othe...
MELINA MARCHETTA
Everyone else would have danced around the truth for too long a time. Lirah, was able to slap them i...
MELINA MARCHETTA
And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.
He wished th...
MELINA MARCHETTA
My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my ...
EMMITT SMITH
In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up i...
ZADIE SMITH
I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
WILL SMITH
I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
WILL SMITH
When you create art, the world has to wait.
WILL SMITH
I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.
WILL SMITH
In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
WILL SMITH
You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
WILL SMITH
I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly abo...
WILL SMITH
I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and ...
WILL SMITH
I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like ...
WILL SMITH
We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell,...
WILL SMITH
Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
WILL SMITH
I want the world to be better because I was here.
WILL SMITH
So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
WILL SMITH
Life is lived on the edge.
WILL SMITH
If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who d...
WILL SMITH
The first step is you have to say that you can.
WILL SMITH
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH
Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organ...
ZADIE SMITH