519 quotes found
“When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain.”
“With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.”
“I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.”
“Most Christians are like a man who was toiling along the road, bending under a heavy burden, when a wagon overtook him. The driver kindly offered to help him on his journey. He joyfully accepted th...”
“I first understood why Christians prayed for a savior in the form of a beautiful man. He had absolved me of the blue-streaked blond.”
“It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold on to it.”
“I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss.”
“I don't know what I need, or even what I want, from her or from anybody. There's no way to tell her the truth, because the truth is that my heart is broken, and I don't think there''s any chance of...”
“Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all relationships between men, so the self-compulsion of ideological thinking ruins all relationships with reality. The preparati...”
“Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries.”
“My skin has the crinkled appearance of wax paper that someone has tried to flatten and reuse. My eyes fail me oftenin the darkness, when headlights flash, when rain falls. It is unnerving, this new...”
“...they hold all their flaws between their bodies and cradle them with each kiss.”
“Because you deserve dignity, beyond anything else in this world. You deserve a God, and a faith, and a belief that finds you dignified at the core.”
“When it came to talking with God, I wanted to believe he was like those stars. If I looked, hed be there. Id lost a lot of things in the years that led up to this point - shoes and keys and books a...”
“You know, just because you think bubblegum pop on the radio represents all that is wrong with society, that doesnt mean theres not someone out there who needs that shitty pop song. Maybe that shitt...”
“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”
“Literature destabilizes thought by breaking open language and smuggling in sound, rhythm, and image--an invasion of aesthetics. More easily than analytic writing, poetry can emancipate itself from ...”
“The topic was eloquence, something Christians had been conflicted about since the first-century church when Paul wrote that in bringing the gospel, he did not come with eloquence. A few centuries l...”
“They were the kind of words you read back and every lettered limb surprises you because you never knew you really felt those things the whole time.”
“I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, a...”
