519 quotes found
“Selfish people try to keep or get things but they loose people”
“She had never met Caroline's mother, but she knew a thing or two about what happened when someone went far away, how after a time you couldn't see their faces anymore when you closed your eyes or h...”
“The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of...”
“mischief, arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopolizing our affections.”
“June is gone. For the first time, the enormity of that hits me. Every muscle aches, my heart most of all. I am throbbing with how much I miss her. It hurts worse than anything. I don't know how I'm...”
“I thought to myself, 'No matter what happens from now on, even if my heart ends up in pieces, this makes it all worth it, this moment.”
“Remember: whatever is burrowed deep in one hungry soul is bound to be tethered to the hearts of many, many more.”
“Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.”
“My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war.”
“I don't know what I believe anymore. If God does exist, then He's just an asshole, creating this world full of human suffering and letting all these terrible things happen to good people, and sitti...”
“In some ways I admire Aunt Helen's unwavering certainty in God's divine plan. It must be comforting, to have faith like that. To believe so concretely that there's someonesomethingout there watchin...”
“She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was impossible as the other.”
“We are all changed by this war, Soph. Daniel is your brother now that Rachel is ... gone. Truly your brother. And this baby, he or she is innocent of ... his or her creation.''It's hard to forget,'...”
“It is nearly impossible.''Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.”
“It feels weird, being out in the real world again. Around people just living their lives like normal. Their presence is oppressive. The very fact that the world is going on as usual, like nothing e...”
“She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good peopl...”
“I just want to keep you safe.I smile. Americans can be so naive.”
“Nobody is wired wrong, because theres no wrong and right in the way we are.”
“I wish we would all just fall apart so I wouldn't have to listen to the downfall happen, so slowly, so painfully.”
“Only be rebellious for good reasons.”
