31 quotes found
“Denial couldn't be maintained.”
“Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.”
“Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.”
“...an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not...”
“Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.”
“He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it.”
“Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.”
“Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion, and...”
“Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. Yo...”
“If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose fo...”
“Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of ...”
“Our culture sentimentalizes children, and we forget one of the things that we should most remember from that time of our lives: Children know that this world can be hard on them, harder than it is ...”
“From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having made one great slow turn on a carousel to become our future, and if we have learned anything wort...”
“But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern”
“The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and proclaims his intention to save the seas is convinced tha...”
“Theres just something unsettling about studying your reflection. Its not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe its that when you gaze into your...”
“In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.”
“Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that i...”
“From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this fraternity of the demented required of themselves when they murdered...”
“Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.”
“If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives and they do then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.”
“Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...”
“Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tape...”
“Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool”
