J.M. Williams Quotes

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.

Nothing can stop a lie whose fashion has come...

Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.

Wise random strangers at bars are modern-day Oracles of Delphi, except drunk and sometimes leaving abruptly when it's their turn for karaoke.

The happiness of a family is such a complex matter. Like a table laid out with a tea service, it looks so ordinary until it's threatened. Then it becomes infinitely precious.

Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.

This, she thought, was what love and desperation made you do: say things that were better left unsaid, give yourself away in a million little gestures, a thousand little changes of expression.

Ah, my wee sprite." He released the lock of hair and leaned closer. "If learning to fly is your desire, then fly you shall.

You, Faery Man, are wonderful.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing

When you are up in life your friends get to know who you are. When you are down in life you get to know who your friends are.#minoradjustments101

Mendacity is a system that we live in, " declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

Everything- even me, and one day even Charlotte- must come to end.

His name was Theo.

Abby could smell his hot breath in her face. It reeked like dead apples left to rot in the scorching summer sun.

It was unhealthy to get too attached. Such things were best reserved for people who had a life expectancy

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

We sit and talk, quietly, with long lapses of silenceand I am aware of the streamthat has no language, coursingbeneath the quiet heaven ofyour eyeswhich has no speech

You lethargic, waiting upon me, waiting for the fire and Iattendant upon you, shaken by your beautyShaken by your beauty Shaken.

Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.

It is at the edge of the petal that love waits

so much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside the whitechickens.

When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyleatop some crumbling building, spring to lifea resuscitated angel.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our childrenso longfor the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fatherswe live

i laced my shoes with sorrowand walked a weary roaddead end streetsdon't come undonewith double knots wing tipped shoesthat walk on airthrough vacant lots

For the beginning is assuredlythe end- since we know nothing, pureand simple, beyondour own complexities.

You're never going to walk around fear. You're only going to walk through it. I have to do all those things I am afraid of, but I do them constantly renewing my mind.

Faith moves mountains. Religion strip-mines them.

Ignite the light within you, it will make your world brighter.

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the heart, it was a force that comprehended them both, as if they were but the matter of love, its specific substance.

But you make the rest hard too. Make me work for you. Make me earn your love. It's worth whatever price. Whatever cost. Don't let me come to expect easy with you. Make me want to work hard for you.

Being an entrepreneur is a mental job...It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.

Stick by your friends, and they'll help resolve your issues. Or, at the very least, help you forget they exist for a while.

Mistakes happen and life is full of twists and turns, but you mustn’t let any set backs hold you back from moving forward. Life is too short to dwell on things that have gone wrong.

True happiness comes from within. When we stop looking for social proof and trust in ourselves, a certain magic happens. You are the most important person in your life, and, we are one.

If you want to change your future, you have to change your now, and to change your now you must change your mindset.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

In the depths of hell roasting on a spit if it meant getting to be close to you.

You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you.""Fondle?" Raisa raised her eyebrows, "When did I mention fondling?

If you do not completely accept yourself, you can not love yourself fully. It would be hard to love anything unconditionally.

Everything starts from inside of us, then comes outside of us.

Don't believe everything you are told, if it resonates within you, then listen and act.

The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume.

Lacey-girl, books take you anywhere. Any place you want to go. You remember that always.