Another woman tweeted recently that the book "let me know that my thoughts were indeed valid; even as a child, nerd, girl, outsider etc... .. Of those four designations, Dahl himself could only lay claim to the first: he was, for better and for worse, a permanent kid.
However, even the very largest dinosaurs could only lay eggs of a limited size, meaning hatchlings were small and despite growing fast, had a very, very long way to get to the size of their parents.
"I was so weak physically that I could only lie in bed.
At the final whistle, the Slovak players began to dance and belly-flop onto the turf at Ellis Park, while Quagliarella could only lie on his back in disbelief.
The world-renowned Norwegian composer would finally convince Delius's father that his son's future could only lie in music.
People wondered what there was to celebrate.To millions campus radicals on the left; conservative Democrats such as Jimmy Carter of Georgia; even many establishment Republicans redemption could only lie in clear-eyed scrutiny of the nation's flaws.
"The defenseless earth could only lie waiting for its destruction," the narrator writes, echoing an earlier passage about the girl: "There was nothing she could do, no one to whom she could appeal.
I also thought about the migraines I suffered as a child, a pain so terrible that I could only lie in the dark and imagine slicing open my temples to relieve it.
With no way forward and no reinforcements behind them, Willis recalled that, "No rally could be made for another charge, and we could only lie there, hugging the ground and protecting ourselves as well as we might from the heavy firing still poured in upon us, through the entire day".
You have no ability to trust, to touch, to grieve: 'Eventually, you are simply absence.' There were many days when he couldn't move, couldn't swing his legs out of bed, couldn't control his bodily functions; he could only lie in a corner and weep.
He continued to have periods of severe lethargy, with times when he could only lie on a sofa and do nothing.
