Quotes by Adele

“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”

“... Papa's always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go." "Not a bad ability.""... I'm not sure. I think we have to remember it all before we can forgive it.”

“Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.”

“We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.”

“Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.”

“Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops of sweat like blood running down his face, that he might be spared the terrible cup ahead of him, ...”

“Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast”

“This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.”

“There're a lot of things you don't understand." Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. "I came looking for you, and then when I found out where you were, suddenly it didn't seem worth it. It wasn't you....”

“And we mustn't lose our sense of humor," Mrs. Which said. "The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.”

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”

“Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe t...”

“Im lonely, and he can see it. Maybe everyone can see it.”

“Explore the world with an open mind, a sturdy carry-on, and clothes that don't wrinkle!”

“It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.”

“Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free.”

“Megs eyes were too bright. I wish human beings couldnt have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.”

“As much as he liked the idea of having best friends with whom he could share anything. it was like all he knew how to be was alone, apart.”

“Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.”

“Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks.”