121 quotes found
“There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one's humanity, to exist in a colder, cru...”
“After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.”
“The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It's knowing that other folks around you suffer and, no matter what happens to you, no matter how l...”
“The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.”
“It didn't help when he told David that his mother would always be with him, even if he couldn't see her. An unseen mother couldn't go for long walks with you on summer evenings, drawing the names o...”
“Before she came ill, David's mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way that people were alive, or even dogs or cats. (...) Stories were different, though: t...”
“People who believe in buried gods, said Louis.Do you believe in buried gods, Detective Walsh?Im Episcopalian. I believe in everything.”
“These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them wer...”
“Know a man by his metaphors.”
“Being shot at for years by men of a particular nationality will tend to impact negatively upon ones view of them.”
“Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.”
“And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.”
“You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt no sorrow or guilt after the act; those so obsessed with themselves that they turned t...”
“Perhaps it's true that all men love their fathers, no matter how terrible the things they do to their sons: there is a part of us that remains forever in debt to those responsible for our existence.”
“Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an accomplice to the crimes that were committed. To re...”
“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
“Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.”
“We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms”
“David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her, and she in it, and he would recall again all that she had told him about ...”
“You pay by the hour, even if the job only takes five minutes. I dont do fractions.”
