79 quotes found
“No divinity worth His salt could be contained in a book.”
“You belong to the world. Dont be afraid to be a part of it.”
“You belong to the world. Don’t be afraid to be a part of it.”
“I could either succumb to the nightmares Ive raised or paint them.”
“I could either succumb to the nightmares I’ve raised or paint them.”
“Men could be utter pussycats when they had even a touch of the sniffles.”
“You get a few of them together and dont be surprised if pipes and drums appear out of nowhere. It is a sort of magic people believe in”
“[His] leaving had stabbed her heart. This organ was not inclined to forgive her for vulnerability.”
“Its about Nietzsches theory of universal debt. Your parents make it possible for you to believe a far better myth than Santa. They let you think that you, as a kid, dont owe the world a thing. The ...”
“Anyone who thinks traditional and modern interpretations of demons are frightening had better remember that real angels inspired awe because they were so ghastly. How we usually think of angel is a...”
“Though her body fit with his like a puzzle piece, his mind was an ever-shifting riddle she felt she could study her whole life and never fully solve. She spent the most time touching him, caressing...”
“His mind was a tapestry constantly weaving and unweaving with the dedication of Penelope for her Odysseus.”
“They ignored her because of their headphones, a thousand people marching to fifteen hundred different drummers, effectively secluded but for a very basic instinct not to bump into one another. Thos...”
“In the beginning, there was nothing. Then, out of the nothing came the Word and the Word was power. Every utterance of the Word gave form to the Void, starting with beings to utter the Word. There ...”
“God has planned the world too perfectly for me to doubt that everyone is where they are supposed to be.”
“When colleges, both within the Hudson Valley and throughout the country, encouraged women to do little beyond attaining their Mrs. degree in Husbandry, Annandale offered rigorous and prestigious de...”
“Making love, sensing how he felt about her in the high tide of passion, seeing herself through his eyes, brought her to an ecstasy beyond words.”
“Owing to thousands of generations of over-justification bred into them to keep from the maddening awareness of the true composition of the world, people had a tendency to give themselves the freedo...”
“Nature was beautiful and filled with spirituality without needing to be likewise full of spirits.”
“She is the sort of person who can do things she doesnt know yet. There are things you know you know and you know you dont know and you dont know you know and you dont know you dont know. She may no...”
“I know a great number of things, though never all at once or for very long.”
“In an electroencephalogram one of her seizures was almost identical to an orgasm... Nothing happened during a seizure that couldnt happen outside one, except that Roselyn was not in control of it a...”
“Shane lingered over a sickly sweet bit of doggerel comparing accepting Christ into ones life with turning a pumpkin into a Jack-o-Lantern. It sounds like God is seriously going to mutilate you.Rose...”
“I am able to separate the mythological aspects of my religion from the practical ones. Jesus, his sacrifice, the Gospels? Those are true to me. Angels, demons, burning bushes, Revelations? Primitiv...”
“Words could be quite enough for magic to occur, when the night was warm enough and the moon waxing.”
