33 quotes found
“The less I have, the less I can lose.”
“Three more words. Be happy. Persevere.”
“I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.”
“Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.”
“You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.”
“Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.”
“Fate isnt one straight roadthere are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”
“She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as beautiful as any king's palace. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our h...”
“You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining ...”
“Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.”
“Her eyes were clear; she hadn't been crying. She was a cop's wife first, a woman second; she wouldn't give in to tears as long as Wyatt was fighting for his life because she was fighting with him i...”
“Stormy Llewellyn, a woman of unconventional views, believes instead that our passage through this world is intended to toughen us for the next life. She says that our honesty, integrity, courage, a...”
“Most people desperately desire to believe that they are a part of a great mystery, that Creation is a work of grace and glory, not merely the result of random forces colliding. Yet each time that t...”
“Considering that the modern and contemporary literature taught in most universities is largely bleak, cynical, morbid, pessimistic, misanthropic dogmatism, often written by suicidal types who soone...”
“He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.”
“We ate food that wasn't healthy. We let dirty dishes stack up in the sink. We slept too much.We talked about everything, everything but the slaughter at the mall. Our past, our future. We planned. ...”
“You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.”
“I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.”
“I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, imm...”
“Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.”
“When I was a child, I first thought that these shades might be malevolent spirits who fostered evil in those people around whom they swarmed. I've since discovered that many human beings need no su...”
“Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind all ugliness.We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which it must travel. ...”
