G.s.gabriel Quotes

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

I was nothing more to him than a prison sentence, trapping him inside my walls and persecuting him for a crime he was tricked into committing.

I can't really tell how old I am, only that I'm too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all the answers.

The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet."May God have mercy on you, " he said. And erased him from his heart.

...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.

The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them.

Men demand much more than you think, " she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.

God, please God, touch me, inflame me, burn me, drive me insane with desire but don't let go of me, do not let go of me. - GABRIEL -

Forsaking the shield of insensibility she had tightly woven over herself during her years as a gelder, she unbarred her heart. She invited him in.

Independence' is a magic word, because nowhere in the Cosmos does it actually exist.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.

The thoughts of Man build future worlds, whilst the emotions of the Fey build up this, our Natural World.

Thoughts alone are potent writs of becoming.

No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich, ” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

No matter whom I'm with I'll always be alone, " she said. And she added with a roguish touch: "Excellency.

I'll never fall in love again, " he once confessed to José Palacios, the only human being with whom he ever permitted himself that sort of confidence. "It's like having two souls at the same time.

Where does the past go when it changes?

This is when I became myself. The girl before this time is a shadow, like a soul who is practicing how not to become. She is the background, the hole in the fabric from which the real shape is cut.

The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa, , you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me the world has always been like this.

Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The soldiers had lost conviction long ago. Now they lost confidence.

True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good.... desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry and with no real result.

only full it will be that sees white and call it black

Nu exista pe lume leac care sa tamaduiasca ceea ce nu tamaduieste fericirea/ There is no cure in this world which heals what happiness does not heal.

I nod in the darkness. He embraces me and before long he's fast asleep, a man with clear consiense and an open heart. I stay awake, listening to his breath and thinking of the webs we weave.

Merciful God!" sighed the General. "We've arrived." And it was true. For there was the sea, and on the other side of the sea was the world.

Once again was it proved that the designs of Providence are impenetrable and that the sinner, climbing out of the pit of his filthiness, may feel himself touched by grace.

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest of it?

Lucidity was a slippery thing and her hands were wet.

She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot.

Some Christians say god is the source of morality, these people have clearly never read the bible.

memories brings some past that dealt with the pain and yet we choose to embrace it as if we have a lot to gain.

Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.

I don't do it for Michael. I do it for them.""Them?""People.""They're broken! Flawed!""Yes, but some of them try to do better. Try to forgive.

...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth...

Only me, eh? Is that how you see yourself? Only you is worth a good deal more than you think.

our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after another

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.

Our side has agents. Their side has spies.

Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.

He feels safer just knowing that even if he's away there is a home waiting for him to return.

It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good

The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.

...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.

I don't think you comprehend the depth of my feeling for you. It goes beyond wanting to be near you, or protect you. I want you to be happy, and I want you to be treated with respect.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams

You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.

You ask why I love you. For this: You are a minute of quiet in a loud shouting world.