J.R. Miller Quotes

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

[asked if his suicide attempt was a cry for help]No. I told no one. You only cry for help if you believe that there's help to cry for.

There is no honour in betraying your friends.

When you learn to love yourself, you will no longer tolerate mistreatment of any kind. Not from him. Not from her. And not from YOU.

JOH! Thank God I found you.”“I have 9022 gods listed in my database. Must I thank all of them?

You've never been to another planet, have you Aimee?""No, but I've been to Disney World.

But eggshells were made to be broken, and slamming into a 100-story skyscraper at the speed of light would likely do the deed.

The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her.

what's the saying? All is donkey balls in love and war?-Dan Garrett

Dude, you know I'm not getting paid for this shit, which is probably against the law. Child labor going on right here in the heartland of America!-Dan Garrett

The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.

Perhaps one of the reasons I've avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose.

Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

This is why there is something awful about human freedom. This power to make a choice which will never cease to reverberate.

Some people experience rare moments when everything they believe is challenged. Or at least shaken up. Those moments stay with them. Surprise, real surprise, is an exotic thing not soon forgotten.

He’s evil in a can.

After a victim is made to participate in an act of evil, the people in charge put a lot of energy into convincing the child or adult that he or she is evil and a perpetrator rather than a victim.p324

Evil comes in various forms, the one it comes most is the crowd of people.

She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.

She couldn't detach from him, couldn't catch her breath, and didn't want to. Not ever again.

Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.

When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of "evil": the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it.

Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.

What we work so hard to avoid is the shattering of our lives by horrors we know we will be helpless to control.

This and this and this.

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn the, that it could never be Eden?

Fiction is the evidence that reality exists

When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.

a hymn then not to birds but to words which themselves feel like feather and wing and light, as if it were on the delicacy of such sweet syllables that flocks take flight.

It is not what you meant to say, but it is what your saying meant.

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.Laura Miller - Butterfly Weeds

I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.

No gaming outside of the venue without a sanctioned game master.

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn them that it could never be Eden?

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs.

He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight.

He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.

To admit what you see endangers principles.

Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish more ignorant and confused than the very day we were born.

I went because the nights are numbered and I do not know the count.

The trouble with eating Italian is that 5 or 6 days later, you're hungry again.

You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.

Over the years, they’d become accomplished at avoiding unpleasant topics. Their burdened demeanors spoke volumes through the silence.

His silence helps him come off as something of a seer, a whispering muse.

In trying to commit my life to finding and participating in some of the purposes of Christ, as I can determine them, my energies and abilities are gradually being focused and are working together.

(The monks) approach was far less narcissistic and our tends to be. Their goal when reading Scripture was to see Christ in every verse, and not a mirror image of themselves.

Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells.