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“He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battlelike liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company.”
“Justice is not an easy battle to win; some get to the fact, some get fucked.”
“And one day when you wake up, you happen to realise that your battle isnt with the man you had got into a brawl with the other day, it isnt with a friend turned foe, it isnt with those parents who ...”
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly real...”
“It has always seemed to me that there are two types of people in this world: those rendered impotent by the sheer weight of evil it contains, and who refuse to act because they see no point, and th...”
“Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?"I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up.”
“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”
“With each day he felt the barriers melting. He let them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book, because he knew she w...”
“Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned”
“Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself t...”
“The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.”
“Don't worry know what you can't change. rest when you can so you'll be ready for tomorrows battle.”
“I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird on the sword of your ancestors, and lead us to victory' you may spare your breath to cool your por...”
“Bravery is when you walk into a battle you are not sure of winning.”
“He who fights with guns and knives is a coward! For how easy is it to kill with the single pull of a trigger? And how does human flesh stand to a sharpened metal? Even an idiot can kill with a gun ...”
“Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile.”
“Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people to fight one another. I do not feel happy for th...”
“When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?”
“When you become a Christian, you are not on earth to fight for Jesus; God needed only one battle to redeem the souls of humanity. It was the cross.”
“Just like the forces of Good and Evil, on the levels so much distant from man, logic and reason clash with each other. In that merciless, multi-millennial and primal battle, none of them stepped aw...”
