Lost Quotes
She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.
It felt now as if I'd never known them and I couldn't know them again. It seemed to me that whatever had existed back in the place where I'd grown up was so far away now, impossible to retrieve.
In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.
He unfolded his arms and moved to the side. I was fine with that. Again with the glowering, though. Seen that, done it myself. So last year.
Not to mention, "Magnus noted, "that Jace killed him. That would put anyone off".
Muslim and non-Muslim from across the world flocked to Baghdad to be part of Al-Ma'mun's project "Bait Al-Hekmah" or "House of Wisdom
An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.
I don’t know what I did to deserve someone as smart and beautiful as you.”"You were you. And maybe that was enough.
The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.
Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.
Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.
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.
There is no lifeguard on duty. We each swim at our own risk during this short journey." ~ Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue
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.
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.
Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.
It was a place you could make into a home if your home hadn’t worked out.
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.
He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .
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.
I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.
Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.
The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.
These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.
The moon shone upon his almost transparent hands, and Stephen saw that the nails were fearfully long and that the light shone through them.
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?
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
I can say infinite for you to stay, but sadly it only took one from you to break us away and us separate ways
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 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.
Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?” “I don’t even know what language that is.
What we are at this very moment, is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment.
But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss.
Bentley is a good bee with a shaky sense of direction and an appetite for mayhem. Just don't call him a drone. He hates that.
Ty is green but never with envy. Best of all, he's usually available to help move a heavy piece of furniture.
Lost Cactus is a cornucopia of sights, sounds and inhabitants completely foreign to a little squirrel like Sammy, but attempting to set him straight will only complicate matters.
Will Cato's alien buddies come en masse and invade Earth? He's not sure but he'll try to keep humanity in the loop.
Oh that's right Keep away from me Please give me a pushDon't let me understand you Don't realise meOr we might tumble togetherDepersonalizedIdenticalInto the terrific NirvanaMe you --- you --- me
That was how evil magnified itself: it took root in the young and grew along with them.
Come on, " I say, "let's go be star-crossed lovers and court disaster.
The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all.
Sin has progressed and gained momentum
We are all the authors of our own fates
Evil men flourish. The righteous suffer. The Lord never promises we won’t—only that He’ll sustain us when the tribulation comes.
Mom used to tell me not to worry when people didn't get me. People throw rocks at things that shine - from the mixed up files of Tilly Adam's journal
Some people aren't meant to stay in your life. But, that doesn't mean you can't carry a piece of them in your heart.
Everyone knew that bugs traveled in packs. Only the stupid ones got caught. The smart ones lay in wait for her to go to sleep so they could attack.