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“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. ”
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”
“The truth is I didnt need therapy”
“This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens”
“Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your ...”
“All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, youll be free. You cant spend the rest of your life hiding from yourself; always afraid that your memories will incapacitate...”
“So if you love me, let me go.And run away before I know.My heart is just too dark to care.I can't destroy what isn't there.Deliver me into my fate -If I'm alone I cannot hateI don't deserve to have...”
“She seemed dressed in all of me, stretched across my shame.All the torment and the pain leaked through and covered me.I'd do anything to have her to myself.Just to have her for myselfNow I don't kn...”
“This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them”
“I am a waning birdencased in a glass sphere;I cannot see my prison,and my cries no one can hear.”
“You must endure”
“You cannot ask questions about your purpose from to other people”
“God has implicit confidence in you”
“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
“Wars fought over a face like this, he murmured like he was talking to himself, my heart stopped beating and his thumbs moved lightly across my cheeks. A man would work himself into the ground for i...”
“My ideas about vampires may be romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.”
“Never sleep with a lady only once, especially in the case of an older lady.-'Rhett ”
“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”
“Plants are not cognizant. When we cut a leaf, we assume that the plant is suffering. But that's our own anthropomorphism about what's going on.”
“The idea that damage has to be pain is mistaken. We feel pain because we have specific types of receptors called nociceptors which are programmed to respond to pain, not to touch. People can have g...”
