God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
Ellen Hopkins, Burned.
“Real love finds you once, if you're lucky.”
“God is love," she said. "And he respects love, whether it's between a parents, and child, a man and woman, or friends. I don't think he cares about religion one little bit. Live your life right. Lo...”
“Did you ever, when you were little, endure your parents warnings, then wait for them to leave the room, pry loose protective covers and consider inserting some metal object into an electrical outle...”
“in a woman's womb.another chance.to make the world better.”
“I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.”
“Me? Beautiful? I'm plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard to agree. You shine brighter than the Milky Way.Now there are those who might try to...”
“Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore ...”
“I crawled over the mountain of death, Watching the corpses roll down like the stones. Searching for the light which everyone always spoke of. I fought the wolves and also the death, and knocked the...”
“Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.”
“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”
“We limit ourselves and God who wants to work through us”
“God can only work through those who have totally identified themselves with His will and purpose”
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”