Quotes by Adele

“I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.”

“In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus”

“Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?”

“The closer we come to understanding the challenges of autism, the better we are placed to accommodate and educate without risking removing that individuality we all love.”

“The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that may not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many nobl...”

“But illness does not always write itself upon the body, the sickness I search for is hidden deep within the brain. Sometimes it rises to the surface. Sometimes the face betrays what the body concea...”

“How is it possible to know so much about a person and yet know nothing at all?”

“In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chauc...”

“I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.”

“Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. The obligations of normal human kindness chesed, as the Hebrew has it that we all owe. But...”

“Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?""I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father.""Well, you know what, you've got dream-boa...”

“Of course. I am well aware that the streets of New York are not safe, but then there is no longer any place in the world which is safe. One cannot live in perpetual fear, one has to be as prudent a...”

“Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp”

“All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the ...”

“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...”

“Sometimes you need to loose in order to win.”

“The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.”

“Divorce can be a very destructive force and high powered, professional career women, like myself, don't have the luxury of time to fall apart. We want an alternative to months in therapy - somethin...”

“We're not peculiar.""Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been divorced? Basically because it would have been too much trouble. But you ...”

“One night after dinner a group of us were talking about the supernatural, and one of our dinner guests said that when the electric light was invented, people began to lose the dimension of the supe...”