112 quotes found
“There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place with...”
“I flopped on the overstuffed kitchen couch and watched him go. I wondered what would happen to all his films and photographs in the upstairs closet - the documentaries on homelessness and drug addi...”
“Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.”
“It must be difficult to be a mother, she continued thoughtfully. To create and nurture and raise a tiny person, to invest all of your heart in it, only to have them grow up and not need you anymore...”
“A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experi...”
“I went back to my room and spent all night contemplating whether it was possible in life not to be constantly let down. If it could ever be worth pinning your happiness to another person, when all ...”
“He didnt reckon that God owed him anything. He reckoned that hed had it all, and wasted it. Burning lakes and howling fiends had just never seemed that convincing, perils hardly fit to frighten nau...”
“I had not said anything about what had happened the day beforeabout being scared down to my very bones when I thought they had left me. I don't know what came over me. Ever since my mother left us ...”
“Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside.”
“Each drop hits the pavement;A soft, incoherent shatter below.Here I stand in torturous observanceOf this strange disappearing act.”
“It took me years to stop feeling the guilt she made sure I kept feeling about what happened with him. He is a sick person that molests children, but I felt so bad about it for so long. I couldn't t...”
“Once you've done it with him, he won't abandon you. If he really loves you, if he's a man with a heart, he'll follow you wherever you go. If he doesn't, he isn't the man you want, is he?”
“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”
“The person whom you really, really love may not be here anymore. And you might be feeling lonely, but, there are people in this world who really, really love you, so shouldn't that equal it all out...”
“Gods absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that ...”
“The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.”
“Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.”
“People mean well; they just aren't here enough to get what we are dealing with or what home means to my mother. Everyone thinks they know what should be done, and their suggestions make me suspect ...”
“They say blood is thicker than water. It's also more treacherous, prone to betrayal, full of shit and quite honestly, I wouldn't put much weight into it at all.”
“She made me her everything. She didnt realize then that when you make someone your everything, when they are gone you have nothing left. I have since learned that our Master sends us soul mates who...”
