Be That One! Quotes

What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.

One of my girlfriends was getting married. This was becoming an annoying pattern.

Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.

I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.

Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones)

You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

Kids chase the love that eludes them.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.

Why did he have to be so gorgeous? Why did he have to stand so close, and why did I still love him so much?

It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.

They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

Kissing girls is easy, like breaking windows.

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.

I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush speak.

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.

I don't make summer jams or albums based on time or seasons; my goal is to make quality music, timeless music. I'm not looking at the calendar.

You only get honest expression when I spit in your ear; That means even when I'm dissing you I'm being sincere.

See me looking like Atlas, when he handle the globe. I see you looking like Alice, Wonderland is your home. It makes me wonder if you practice your flow.

You used to be fly, but you crashed your plane.

I've enjoyed much success. The IRS is always at my door, constantly.

Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments.

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

Deeply immersed in a constant bubble bath of sin, you cannot communicate with Jesus Christ unless you are ready to get out of the bath. John 1:9

If you believe that your needs were met because you prayed, then you make God the parent who reacts only when the baby cries. Matthew 6:25-34.

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

The scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice

Everything that is wrong with this sinful world, is rooted in the selfishness of man. Rom. 8:5

Those who live by God's law will walk through the rough roads of life shielded by God's love and faithfulness. Psalm 25:10.

You are unshakable, the Lord is your rock, and redeemer, when the words of your mouth and the meditation of your heart are pleasing before Him. Psalm 9:14

God is constantly talking to us but we can't hear him because we pay too much attention to the noise from the world. Genesis 12:22.

You cannot, ever, give up on a friend who is close to giving up on themselves

Most people spend their entire lives just trying to live life