582 quotes found
“Do you have things in your past you're not proud of? Things that make you feel ashamed?''That's what makes Christ's death on the cross so personal.”
“Most people don't see half of what's in front of them. Your visual cortex does a shit load of imaging processing before the signal even gets to your brain, whose priorities are still checking the a...”
“I might not have faith in many things, but I do have faith in this; that the one who sent me out will allow me to finish the mission. -Regan”
“Quiet, little Loner, while I figure out what to do with you.”
“Emerson lifts his head. His eyes are two dark pools of desire, a clouded nights sky. He catches his breath a moment, unsteady, and then drops a kiss on my lips. Sweet. Almost tender. I barely have ...”
“But when you make love, the dead stay close, fill the bed, lie along the bodies in tiers, sandwiching all their lives with yours.”
“If I say you are not free to associate with me, it also means I too am not free to associate with you. I might call you the slave but not less bound by the slavery I have created."- Prince Ikan”
“I was sixteen, and I honestly believed I was due a love story.”
“...nowadays, everyone seemed to be dreaming of absolutely everything. Traveling and loving and having a fantastic career and a happy family, all while being thin, beautiful, popular, and in touch w...”
“Tears are only for those who care to see you sad”
“Clean your tears and stop crying”
“The night I started playing your CD out loud for you, instead of playing it through my headphones?"Now this made my eyebrows rise. "You listened to it before that night?""Every night. I've listened...”
“You are no longer human, with all those depths and highs and nuances of emotion that define you as a person.There is no feeling any more, because to feel any emotion would also be to beckon the ove...”
“I froze in place, bracing myself for the coming panic attack. Ben had said he was falling for me. That sounded serious, and whenever past relationships had approached serious, I had promptly freake...”
“The sudden, painful flare of envy caught me by surprise. I was a loner, my last few years in school. I could have done with a friend like that.”
“One of the most difficult things when you were trying to navigate the world of books was dealing with all the unreliable authors. They were so unbelievably tricky to keep track of. An author might ...”
“Is that actually you or am I dreaming again?”
“In my book, the media are a necessary evil: they live off the animal inside us, they bait the front pages with second-hand blood for the hyenas to snuffle up, but they come in useful enough that yo...”
“All I can tell you is that at the end, there's nothing left but love.”
“Long after you have reached the end of your natural span, part of you will dwell within me . . . as I shall be in you to the last of your days and even after.”
