J. Lynn Quotes
Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.
Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him.
I must be out of my mind if I loved you in spite of everything you've done, and anyone else would condemn you for it, but I can't condemn you at all. In my own troubled mind, I loved you for it.
The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.
Because nothing was sacred. Not in this world. Not in stones. Not in trees. Not in legacies. Certainly not in love.
We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising.
Carelessness was once something to be owned. They wore it around their necks as they joined the springtime breeze while ducking in and out of the forest believing their fairy tale.
You love the word love but you don’t really love and you don’t want to love because love, which is really sacrifice, would prevent you from doing what you want to do.
You love me, " she said. "That's enough. We love each other.""Yes. Yes, that's true." He smiled. "We are a love story.
All the bruised lives, searching hearts...Everyone wants a love story but few will risk what it takes to live one.
America loves to pray, God knows. America prays and prays and prays, it is the land of unchained prayer, and all this ceremonial praying is hard on Billy.
Earth, " Alexa finally said. "It's not that great anyway." And they all smiled sadly. Because, of course, it was everything.
What an ambiance, and such a pity I'm alone: Candles giving off their glow, gusts of wind and the light tapping of rain on the windowpane - a massage for the mind. And a comforting one, too.
There is nothing more pathetically sad than a parent who teaches a child not to hit by spanking them. Well, that, and adults who think hitting someone will solve a problem.
That is what all creatures great and small are made of. Leftover stardust. An atom exploded, and all the dust became the planets, the stars...and us. That's all anything amounts to.
Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is "lucky" to have us. We are all full of it.
If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I'd think twice about you, someone I never even cared for?
Whoever lived in that apartment had a security gate, blinds that were closed and curtains drawn. It's probably darker in there than it is in Hollister.
I’m awake and I can’t sleep. The more I’m awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep.
We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline?
I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.
What could he have against love? Sure, it sucked sometimes, but what was the point of living if there wasn't love?
Stuck in high school for the rest of my natural life. Talk about hell.
Americans are children who must go somewhere else to grow up, and sometimes die.
I'll teach you, " Tiger Lily offered with a shrug of her shoulders."Did your mother teach you?" he asked."I don't have a mother, " she said. "Like you."For some reason, Peter was glad to hear it.
We just have to believe that God is bigger than the junk happening to us.
...see the blessing and beauty that you are.
I'll be fine. It's just hard to love somebody who doesn't love you back, " Fallon answered.
It saddens me beyond my tears that love is lost within the fears.
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I don’t know why you’re enjoying this so much.”“Because I am a connoisseur of fine irony. ’Tis a bit like fine wine, but has a better bite.
If your body is telling you to slow down, listen to it. If your body is saying you should keep going... then keep going.
No, but I imagine there's a gun tucked away somewhere on your body. And I know what you can do with that, hotshot."He took a step toward her. "With what, sweetheart? With the gun? Or the body?
She lost herself in the kiss, moving her body against his, her excitement rising, the tension inside her spinning tighter and tighter.
But I’d rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy, than look back and regret something I never had the courage to do, and realize it’s too late.
Some people are far more cognizant than others but sensitivity has its own cross to bear and ample insight, in many cases, can bring on disquietude.
The agony of the empath is feeling their pain but being unable to save them from it.
Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.
Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you.
I bet you have girls hanging all over you. Dozens would probably kill to be in my spot and here I am, allergic to your bread.” I looked up. “Why? Because of my near godlike perfection?
Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they’re not worth loving.
