Lost Quotes

Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?” “I don’t even know what language that is.

I know that language will be a crucial instrument, that I can overcome the stigma of my marginality, the weight of presumption against me, only if the reassuringly right sounds come out of my mouth.

The mind of had the ability to alter the state of matter itself, and, more important, the mind had the power to encourage the physical world to move in a specific direction

I can say infinite for you to stay, but sadly it only took one from you to break us away and us separate ways

Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in the Amazon

Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'nSuch as He pleased and circumscribed their being?

I have butchered many men. All are innocent and equaled when they are on the table. All are exquisite and grotesque. -Dr. Spencer Black

MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.

And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.

We’re meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not fromthe truth. That’s what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.-Jace Wayland

I don't want my kids to be like me. I want them to be better than me.

There's an intimacy in listening to somebody's lies, I've always thought--you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true than from the things that actually are.

Truth is patient. It can afford to be for eventually it will have its way.

I keep expecting to bump into you two on the road, but maybe the universe isn’t yet ready to handle you and me side by side again.

One small boy was all it took to upset the universe

...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.

I didn't know how bad I felt, until I felt good.

Let go of what cannot be changed and let love in.

The more you know who you are and what you want, the less let things upset you

A positive mind plus positive words will equal a positive outcome.

She looked defeated, a castle stormed, torn down, with no one living inside. She looked like a hollowed-out creature, only shell and no soul.

Don't worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from?

In the end, I will have to make a choice about how to tell my story....There has to be a moment of going forward, when all the possibilities are left behind.

... the love of money is the root of all evils." - John de Alençon, Pg, 64

Men are not angels, ” Akhmar affirmed. “And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot.

Atheism certainly promotes a low view of humanity- how much lower can you get than thinking yourself an accidental by-product of a series of even larger accidents!

The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs.

A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies.

[P]erhaps this was how you knew a good deed was truly good: you didn't necessarily feel better afterwards.

It took a special kind of madness to try to be a pirate and a good man at the same time.

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.

The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.

The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.

Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

I'd never had a mind for math. ... It was a logic that made little sense to me. In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or a formula or an equation. It was a story.

He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .

Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.

It was a place you could make into a home if your home hadn’t worked out.

Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.

The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate deeply, plunge headlong into it.

The Truth is, we all get lost as we try to find our way. Perhaps the key is to stop, take a look around and enjoy the scenery as we go.

There is no lifeguard on duty. We each swim at our own risk during this short journey." ~ Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue

Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.

Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.

I don’t know what I did to deserve someone as smart and beautiful as you.”"You were you. And maybe that was enough.