582 quotes found
“I cannot love my neighbour as myselfbecause you bid me do him no harm,and I cannot love my enemiesbecause they keep crawling inside meand tearing out all my emotions:if I am made in your image then...”
“Some people unfold into a thousand wordsand others never speak to me at all,never take the blame at all,never look at me at all I wonder whyhe never looks at me at all (perhapshe cannot bear to me...”
“I stared at my lap. I wished I were confident, I wished I were brave. I wished he didnt scare me. But the more he spoke the less I wanted to look away, and the more I did.”
“You ask me why Im nice to you, he said. Why, why, why. But you dont ask me stuff that matters. Who I am or where I been. What I see when I look at you. What I want.”
“They say you can never step into the same river twice. And maybe that's how it was for Papi now, memories shifting and re-forming soundlessly beneath him while the rest of us sat on the shore and w...”
“You cannot know what light isif you have not experienced darkness.How could you know what happiness feels likeif you know not what it means to be sad?Right does not exist without wrongHate exists b...”
“You have constellationsgrowing under your skin.starlight in the blood spilledwhen they stole your feathers”
“All of itfor this. Leading us to a door we can't open, a password we don't have.”
“Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.”
“Did you once own ruby slippers, and did a house fall on your head? You're a daft little munchkin.”
“That is not what I was saying, you crazy twit!" Kylie faced her with a growl, causing Kat to reach over and smack her on the upper arm...hard, "Cut its out! You don not get to play the I'm-so-dark-...”
“That is not what I was saying, you crazy twit!""Cut it out! You do not to play the I'm-so-dark-and twisty-I deserve-to-be-punished card.”
“Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil. Joyful...”
“God's breath is like a fresh wind that renews us. Frail and weak as we are,we have hope. We find healing.”
“To love is to risk, and to risk is to lose sometimes, to get hurt. But let it not deter you from loving again, from being happy.”
“Louie was furious at the sharks. He had thought that they had an understanding:The men would stay out of the sharks' turf - the water - and the sharks would stay off of theirs - the raft. That the ...”
“He stood frozen, staring at me as if he didnt know how to do anything else. I couldnt focus; it was like all the worlds blue had originated from his eyes. It was all there, the color of midnight, t...”
“Looking back, I wonder if mom saw it in my eyes: the storm clouds gathering, the dry crackle of electricity in the air. But it was already too late. No warning sirens were going to save me. I guess...”
“We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything's over, we feel as though we have lost everything.”
“We cannot love a person with an all accepting, transcending and encompassing love without being hurt somewhat, without being disappointed, without being failed of our expectations. We cannot love w...”
