T.R. Patrick Quotes
The soul that is unable to forgive is sentenced to an endless purgatory where time stands still and it is forced to relive its pain over and over onto eternity.
Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.
Unto those who have, it shall, uncannily, be given.Unto those who have not, it shall, uncannily, be taken away.
Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.
Finch was his own country, the government unstable, the population volatile.
Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.
There are limits to human beings and science, and fiction is one way to expose those limits. --Ono Norihiro
Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.
In general, ' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.
I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue.
I wish I had a hundred years, " she said, very quietly. "A hundred years I could give to you.
Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.
He beat you." And as I spoke the words I felt a terrible anger come together inside me. It wasn't hot and furious, as some of my flashes of temper tend to be. This was different, slow and cold.
I don't care whose son he is. I won't go belly-up like a timid pup. If he's fool enough to take a poke at me, I'll snap the finger clean off that does the poking.
They fight like puppies. They are young, and boys. They are full of anger and impatience. Women have less trouble with these things. It's part of what makes us better fighters.
The gesture was so tight with rage she feared she’d snap and crack the world in two.
It was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, and finding it out oftheir grasp, decide vengeance is the next best thing.
I love her more than just a little. I think it's because we're both somewhat broken, in our own odd ways. More importantly, we're both aware of it.
If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well
There is nothing typical about my profession.’ Suddenly I did not want to talk about it any longer. ‘I don’t want to talk about it any longer.
Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding.
If she was beautiful at rest she was doubly so awake. Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself.
I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.
Honesty is a quality Patrick likes. Give him a bitter pill if the situation demands it, but don't tell him it's chocolate.
The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it.
Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.
How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck
We don’t “crave” animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.
You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.Humans don't like that.They view it as a sign of ingratitude.I never asked anyone to feed me.That doesn't seem to matter to them.
It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.
It will soon make sense with some reasonable research and reading...ti's all in there, somewhere... find it!!
Kara do you love Brad?'All my heart.'Then how can you let him leave next year?'I guess love isn’t enough sometimes.
The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)
Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.
If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.
...celebrating the Eucharist as a remembrance of Christ means practicing God's justice towards neighbors, strangers, and enemies alike.
Are you hurt?""Absolutely, " I said. "Especially in my everywhere.
