C.S. O'Kelly Quotes

The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children.

It is about time that, atheist or no, we call a spade a spade, and outed lies, and suspicious statements are placed against the backdrop of a linguistic litmus test.

In Proverbs, a wisdom book of the Hebrew Scriptures, a cat would find a few “wisdom” passages as noxious as the Garden of Eden passages. Again the symbology of fruit being eaten

The time has come. I know you, and now you will know me. Ever Yours.

no matter how hard your shell is on the out side you will aways find some one who loves you

It's okay to get emotional. It's okay to cry--and this is key--as long as you can play hurt.

For the day we accept that we have chosen to choose our choices is the day we cast off the shackles of victimhood and are set free to pursue the lives we were born to live.

Lucifer was engraving Nate’s name on a cage right now.

I believe we can choose Love and gratitude, or choose Other Than. Those are our options, and in the end, there’s only one option.

Relax in your own home, Kylie. It's one of the few places on earth you're free to be as you really are.

The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.

Scared?" "You haven't lived until you go grave robbing.

I'd have your back off-site too, if you'd let me." ~Cain, Ghost of You

She had yet to actually call him by his real name. The psychologist in him had all kinds of theories as to why. The man in him wanted to hear her say it. Just once.

At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn’t exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale.

Maybe pulling her emotions out and inserting in his logic would change this morbid course. But damn if he’d joke about it like she did.

This was sharing office space with wacko and bordering on ludicrous.

It took a pair of ghosts to open my eyes.

Calm down. Ghosts don’t ring the doorbell.

There is no utter truth or utter falsehood in this world. There is only mostly. Which part of the mostly you choose to accept, well, that much is up to you.

Now is the only time you have. Change is happening. Give up your desire to control the world

The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.

What you think about me says more about you than it does about me.

Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.

Sometimes in the winter, when the fog rolled in and silenced the waves, it felt as if death had its fingers around my neck. Fingers like frostbitten twigs that made me ache inside.

...she would have walked all the way up to East Sixty-Third Street, and probably 163rd Street, if it meant pouring even more into this memory that wasn't a memory.

In time, she eased into sleep, and her head rested against the plane of his shoulder. He held her and wondered that such a simple intimacy between a man and woman could mean so much.

He gave me a gift, a surprise. It was my first present in this place so far from home.

After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.

You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write

He bit back a weary sigh and tried to remember strangling her would solve squat.

I threatened to gouge one of his eyes out." Cathy

You are no star, Gabby. You're the sky. The rest of us are just circling your orbit.

I gazed up at the stars as I waited. They twinkled down at me, like a huge handful of diamonds someone had coated in glue and thrown on the ceiling.

Considering she’d just blown his gray matter into the ether, he was screwed.

Urges. Mercy, the urges.

The algorithms in his hard drive scrambled and his coding short-circuited. Like she’d downloaded a virus right into his system, he got feverishly hot.

Damn, her mouth was a weapon.

She held my face in her hands as if I was the treasure.

Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful.

It is better to exist unknow to the law.--Irish Proverb

Rebellion without reprisal is one of democracy's perks, right?

[C]apitalism--democracy's sidekick

He shushed her, laughing. “I’d like to be that spider, if that woman was you.

It’s your hero complex, isn’t it? You should see someone about that.” “Right after I get my head examined.

Her biggest fear was that Flynn would walk away before she could even start to worry about him not coming home.

I don’t believe in happy endings, ” Flynn said, spinning Tess and tilting up her chin. “Just happy beginnings.

Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he could’ve sworn that was where he’d been the past ten years.

Save the contrition for the confessional. Regret isn't worth a damn to anyone.

Sorrow is dangerous.