And,if you say something to make me frightened or worried, my heart might stand still or skip a beat.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Lucresi cannot!" Fortunato turned, and still holding me by the arm, pulled me down the street to my home.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

"You know, the judge sentenced me here, so my first thoughts were kinda, you know,uh,this is kinda, Shakespeare's not my thing.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

I imagined there were still secrets in Nature that the limited power of my equipment prevented me from knowing.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

My mother always told me, if you study hard, the answers should be right under your nose or easily seen.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

At the age of eighty, she said this about her career: "My identity is very clear to me now.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Sometimes, when I am very productive in my job, my employer gives me a pat on the back.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

My voice is like an old womans. My eyes no longer show me the way my feet go.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

And,let me go back to my drawing, so I can sell it to the magazine and buy food and wine for us."

VOA: special.2009.08.01

I was very frightened. The sounds of the cave and the sight of my body forced me away.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

My teacher is so near to me that I do not think of myself as apart from her.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

If I did refuse to help, my supervisor might say bad things about me behind my back.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

One of them took hold of my arm. He shook me and lifted me off the ground.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

When I was twenty years old, my parents sent me to New York City to study medicine.

VOA: special.2009.07.25