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“Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there was the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human bei...”
“Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. "I've only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing.I'm utterly lost. And you are needed here." Zsadist tried to reach out, but couldn't lift...”
“I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.”
“May the weary soul find rest in the Lord.”
“In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.”
“A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair.”
“And then I realized that the close people to my heart, are actually the ones who hurt me the most.”
“The news that gives you a future with hope, in spite of your despair over the past, is realizing that Jesus has prayed for you and is praying for you now.”
“Although secular fundamentalist progressives might believe in a future golden age, such an age does not exist. The future that they herald is merely one of gathering gloom and ever darkening clouds...”
“This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this. A huge, empty room: we are tired, standing on our feet, with a tap which drips while we cannot drink the water, and we wait for something ...”
“Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this?"One child said, "The misuse of power is the root of all evil?"Alice said, "Well....”
“It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under ...”
“Times moves differently down here in the dark. With no sunlight or shadows. No weather at all. There's no future, no right now. Nothing but your memory to keep you company. But they keep me so angr...”
“Some stories end in despair, some begin there”
“There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often a stimulus, and produces an excitement which is transient strength. ...”
“Sometimes I could cope with the sullen despair that overwhelmed me: but sometimes the whirlwind passions of my soul drove me to seek, by bodily exercise and by change of place, some relief from my ...”
“Lifelifehow cruel it is! Nothing but tears and sorrow and despair! Not a moment of happiness! Not a moment of joy.”
“I can still hear the screams. They wake me in the night. Terrible, gut wrenching, painful screams; screams that can only come from the deepest and darkest recesses of the mind. These were not screa...”
“...How terrible, those dreams before sleep werethe worse kind, mixing hope with despair...”
“We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.God help us, for we knew the...”
