Donna Quotes
I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again, the ravine, rising all green and black through the saplings, a picture that will never leave me.
The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known.
Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.
It’s easy to thank God and to be happy when you live a sheltered life and have no concept of suffering
Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs
Death was the judge. The Reapers were the executioners. Death was the one who decided who the Reapers would visit and exact their justice.
An accessible introduction to the nature of political thought. Just what I always wanted.
If love comes to you in a way that isn't the norm then at least it came to you
Life is energy and, as such, it belongs to all, reaches all, and blesses all.
To be creative, first we must be generous. Then we must have a quiet, indomitable belief in our own worth.
But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive.
What do you think about America?""Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.
Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, gutteral verbs, and the world "postmodernist.
Wise individuals frequently say very little, but what they do say hits the mark. Such remarks often remain in the mind of the recipient for a long time, possibly a lifetime.
Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship
If love isn't there, nothing will grow. If it is, there is always hope and it will win in the end. Love is vital and sacrosanct.
Being liked or not, having company or not, being understood or not, being acknowledged or not are not issues of concern on the spiritual path.
Every wonderful quality "in" someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life's great symphony.
Faith changes us - faith in something intrinsically good, something other than ourselves, something bigger than ourselves.
It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of humanity which is quite a paradox.