The Edge Quotes
I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
The only thing worst than being hurt is everyone knowing that yoou're hurt.
Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path.
It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.
How we treat people is always our choice, and if we choose not to be respectful, it can come back to bite us.
If she died as a result of this journey, it wouldn't be because of slavers. It would be because Richard's inability to communicate would give her a heart attack.
...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future.
All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)
If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)
If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?
Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.
When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.
I don’t know what I did to deserve someone as smart and beautiful as you.”"You were you. And maybe that was enough.
Where your attention goes, your time goes
Keep your focus laser-locked on what you want to create in your life.
Husbands and wives need to return regularly to the kinds of romantic activities that drew them together in the first place.
He laughed, a big, open-mouthed laugh that made her think of words beginning with the letter O.
His face spreads into a warm smile. “As a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars – are you gettin’ all romantic on me, Camryn Bennett?” He looks at me with a playful sideward stare.
Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.
They had nothing in common except for existing in the same time and space
The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel.”“Awesome.”“Maybe, but it’s code’s all it is.
It's going to happen whether you like it or not, ” he said quietly.The top of the book dropped to display Susan's wrinkled gaze. “What's that?”“Change, ” Rich said. “It's inevitable.
I'm being fair, it was the best kiss of my life- a kiss that finds all your seams and pulls them apart, stitch by detail stitch.
Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.
I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.
He shushed her, laughing. “I’d like to be that spider, if that woman was you.
It’s your hero complex, isn’t it? You should see someone about that.” “Right after I get my head examined.
Her biggest fear was that Flynn would walk away before she could even start to worry about him not coming home.
I don’t believe in happy endings, ” Flynn said, spinning Tess and tilting up her chin. “Just happy beginnings.
Indeed, we should be trying to reach out to those who don’t know Jesus Christ, which is impossible in an atmosphere of hostility.
I mean, I haven't rushed to the answerphone once to see if anyone's aware of my existence in the world!
Ask yourself what you will care about when everything is on the line.
In freedom you form in utter disgrace, the bars of my prison this night.While you drift on currents of seraphim heights, it is I who deserve to take flight.
In the beginning, I only wanted to know, love, and serve God and understand the Bible. What harm could that possibly bring?
Ask not what your Joe Montaperto can do for you, but rather what YOU can do for your Joe Montaperto.
I don't do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism. Breakfast maybe?
The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything’s on its head, it’s a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction…
The Advanced Level is Mastery of the Basics
A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.
The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems.
Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.
Not every problem can be solved by you trying to get yourself killed.
Some presters might tell you never to question, but that is tantamount to telling you not to think. Odun created us to explore, to experience. There is no harm in asking questions…
Look.” He stepped closer, his voice lowered to a gruff murmur, and lifted her chin with his finger, forcing her to meet his gaze – which just made her want to stretch up and kiss him.
Gunfire cracked around them. “Just warning shots, ” he yelled. “How do you know?” “We’re not dead.
He didn't want to take advantage of her? Fine, she'd take advantage of him.
Love was more than a choice, more than a feeling, it was a commitment.