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“Her eyes widened. “Ooh… was it hate sex? I’ve always wanted to have hate sex.”
“John turned to her, with streaks of dried blood along his face. “Thank goodness we got the easy job.”
“He was always crazy about her. If he was a king then she was his crest– the emblem of his kingdom. Without her, his world is lost. He left his house or rather palace, now spends his days on some fi...”
“A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiviness is bitter or sweet.”
“The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged...”
“he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.”
“I was completely and irrevocably in lust”
“Like instinctively”
“When I think of how Jesus loved people, the word “cherish” comes to mind. When we cherish someone, we combine looking and compassion—we notice and care for that person. We don’t shut him or her out.”
“I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.”
“Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.” And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.”
“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.”
“I had a dream that I was in someone else’s shoes for once…they were the wrong size.”
“I’m pretty sure all the individuals trying to control other people’s happiness have none in their own lives.”
“She was drowning—in friendliness, in community—and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.”
“Each man is master of his own death and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.”
“You don’t remember the gifts you are given”
“That's the lesson in this for people like me who sometimes get wound up about doing things perfectly: 90 percent of the people in your life won't know the difference between, say, fresh and frozen,...”
“I had a dream that I was perfect…I woke up and was still perfect. Aw.”
“If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!”
