371 quotes found
“Sometimes, you just meet someone who reminds you of why people get up every day, despite the weight of the world pushing against them. When you come across someone who has the strength to keep goin...”
“...khalepa ta kala...It means that that which is worth having--the good, fine, honorable, and noble things--are difficult to attain...It means something else as well...It means 'beauty is harsh'.”
“When despair has hooked them and dragged them deep into the depths of their own personal Hells, he said as he clenched his fist and turned to face his nephew again, not many are strong enough to cl...”
“Deep things are revealed to you in every encounter with God”
“And thats how we live: wandering endlessly, concentrically outward, seeking in others a kindling spark of the love which has long lain, dormant, dark, unstoked in our own deepest souls.”
“The thing is - any author on the internet doesn't weigh nearly enough as an author in the real world.”
“Turning his back on the village of Unwin, Chiave lumbered into the forest, barely able to walk under the weight of all he carried.”
“Well, Greg, I think that it just means that even after somebody dies, you can... you can still keep learning about them, you know, their life. It can keep unfolding itself to you just as long... ju...”
“If all you do it "live with it"...then that's not much of a life.”
“A universe that can wink into existence can wink out again.”
“I said that sometimes it's too much.""Well, I want someone who doesn't thinks so. I want someone who's heart is big enough to hold me.""You want someone whose love will fit around your finger.”
“I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen,...”
“Am I shallow? she asks the mirror. Yes, I am shallow. The sun shines on the ripples where it's shallow. Deep is too dark.”
“The fool says 'I never intended to kill. I meant only to wound.' But I tell you that if you prick a finger with a poisoned thorn you may not claim innocence when the heart dies. Do not plant a weed...”
“No one gave us life, we're the products of an explosion.”
“Finally, the horizon stretched out infinitely before me and I felt utterly content looking at stars from afar and trying to make out all the variable, temporary, extinguished or faded stars. I was ...”
“Dicks don't have brains. It's why men get into trouble”
“I'd never needed to know that my sister was a screamer. Never. That Mal was a screamer too just kind of confused me.”
“Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open.”
“Lynn said, "The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time. What did I just say?""The sky is special.""The ocean...”
