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“Merrys mind devolved into chaos. Ideas evaded her. Words chased one another into meaningless jumbles. Her breath came in shallow gasps as the ghastly image of Williams lifeless body twisting in the...”
“When you run out of hope, everything is backwards. Your heart wants the opposite of what it needs.”
“I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared”
“Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis.”
“Kelly closed his eyes and began to bargain with God.”
“Yet in another and still more definite sense despair is the sickness unto death. It is indeed very far from being true that, literally understood, one dies of this sickness, or that this sickness e...”
“Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity or self-dissatisfaction she saw as a social cruelty that was...”
“So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standa...”
“You'd be surprised, Theo." she said, leaning back in her shawl-shaped chair, "what small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You're the one who has to watch f...”
“Uncle said, "If love would save him, wouldn't no harm come to him.”
“To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive”
“Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?”
“How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?”
“The road of doubt leads to the dead-end of despair. Time to change directions!" HS/el”
“For anything worth accomplishing, we can always find reasons to doubt, just as we can also find reasons to proceed...I have chosen to side with faith and hope over doubt and despair.”
“I know a manHe came from my home townHe wore his passion for his womanLike a thorny crownHe said "DoloresI live in fearMy love for you's so overpoweringI'm afraid that I will disappear”
“We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses.”
“I tried desperately to put my thoughts into the forms of prayers, but I didn't know how. If God was real, I figured He was powerful enough to know what I wanted without me actually saying the right...”
“Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into the light of day--the light of day, faint in her windowless room.”
“All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.”
