637 quotes found
“If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a dist...”
“Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very ...”
“I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more.”
“You stay close to me, Mikki Jones. Close enough that I can hear you breathe. Got it? ""You always take care of new recruits?""Never”
“I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.”
“A breeze blew softly, slightly rippling the water as it carried the heady scents of late Carolina springtime through the air. Honeysuckle. Jasmine. Ripe, pungent river mud. Ah, the world felt right.”
“The pianothat, too, was an adventure. A little girl tried to learn to play it. Her mother insisted, forced her to sit there and practice. Nothing came of it; stubbornness won out in the end, the st...”
“That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was our tragedy. We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shi...”
“I had a problem with commitment. I was afraid to proclaim that I had found Jesus, been saved, boarded the boat bound for eternal life. I figured it wasn't something I could announce one week and th...”
“Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standard-sized pickle-jar; six hundred million sperma...”
“But then the subject turned to the spiritual life and Meg talked about her many visits to ashrams in India and her admiration for Swami Muktananda and Gurumayi. That got in the way, especially beca...”
“All you have to do, to impress a girl is love her; because it'll make you do things which will impress her automatically”
“It was a miserable thing, to be responsible for breaking your own heart.”
“what a life would be if i could just live in the mountains dense with greenery, sit by my window and read my favourite books.”
“This is how the zombie apocalypse starts," Cas said. "You don't screw with death, yo!”
“...you cant plan out or perfectly schedule the big moments in your life. They just happen to you when they happen, sometimes because you made them happen and sometimes because you couldnt stop them...”
“We had scar-tissueromance and ours wasa relationship of sayinggoodbyeevery timewe fought, every timewe fucked, and every timewe called it quits, beforepicking up our knivesagain”
“Well, lets just hope it doesnt come to that. I started back down the alley. Truthfully, its not you Im so much worried about as your ass. Its like the Eighth Wonder of the World or something. Be a ...”
“I adore you, Chiru. I want to show you in ways words can't express”
“Something in Naja's voice, in the roughness of his hands, made Arjin wonder if there might be some truth to the tales of Ansari devouring soft, young humans. The hunger and need he felt pouring off...”
