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Francine looked up and mouthed, "Thank you." "any titme, " I lied.
Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.
The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.
And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer.
The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer.
It's so clear to me now: the memorizing of a fake prayer, the symbolization of objects, the struggle to relate to the invisible - I needed a religion. I was lost.
Perhaps if I'd had God in my life growing up I would have been able to understand the total and complete unfairness of the universe rewarding mean girls
There is a point in most abusive relationships when it occurs to the beaten party that they are guilty of putting their face in the way of someone else's fist.
Why do people always want to put their hands on vulnerability? I sped up.
love is not boastful. But hate? Apparently hate has a big mouth.
I thought of the past and how one should have respect for it, like the elderly.
It should be noted that my mother has a long history of being disturbingly unperturbed by what normal people deem perturbing. Certain things simply don't strike her as worthy of a sit-down.
Teddy bears are best because they understand it's nice to be alone.
In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain.
The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local.
When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea.
And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.
Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.
Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more.
A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.
Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.
So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of dreams. And then tomorrows.
No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
Books are the only things worth stealing.
You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right.
The thrill of theft, of violence, the urge to live easy - is it worth it when we have undeniable proof, yes, yes, incontrovertible evidence that hell exists?
A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself.
There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
No, but I do read a lot. I love to read. I could read for days and never stop. I use to be such a bookworm. I would barely look up to notice much of anything.
Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way.
I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.
I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.
Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas, " I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to be.
Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.
Bookshop Customer: 'Who wrote the bible?'Customer's friend: 'Jesus.
Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.
His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching first at one spar and then at another.
God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.
The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your i
A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.