470 quotes found
“Its true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow.""Ah...quite. You are a man of acute insight.""Thats not insight. Thats a personal guarantee.”
“Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to get it there; (...)”
“Things'll get worse before they get better.”
“She's a princess and you're a jock," he says. He thrusts his chin toward Bronwyn, then at Nate. "And you're a brain. And you're a criminal. You're all walking teen-movie stereotypes.”
“he looks the waysilence looks before its broken”
“It is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up the church. So the church is innately political. This cannot be helped. But it can ...”
“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it ...”
“the toilet is an intimacyonly shared with parents when you are youngand once again when they are olderand with lovers when say on a Sundaymorning stretching into the bathroomyou wake to the sound o...”
“Whuppins were like kid taxes we paid with our behinds.”
“When we die, our bodies turn to dust, he says. If you were nobody of consequence, you're forgotten unless you do something worth remembering. When he looks my way, I purse my lips and look down. Ot...”
“There is good even in church people. You find it hard to believe, right? Jesus never shut the door on religious people. He just made sure that they understand He was that door, and not their deeds ...”
“Everything works out in the end. if it hasn't worked out yet, then it's not the end.”
“You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on.""What do you find on the other side? When you go on?"She shrugged. "Your life again. W...”
“A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cryeven if he is at a convenient height for it.”
“Both of you be safe," Nessa said, looking to Turner. "Welcome to my messed up home, by the way.""Messed up?" Turner asked. "They seem like a loving bunch, all willing to kill each other off. What's...”
“ The darkness is no place to be in times like this.”
“A man of fifty is responsible for his face.”
“The mass hallucination of the twentieth century is this: that all these national governments, which each year kill or threaten way more humans than they protect, and take a big chunk of your income...”
“How about a kiss?Are you man enough to try? she asked.”
“It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.”
