Odd Quotes
Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I’m lying down and horizontally if I’m running
Today, some chess games can't go in 40 minutes. One game not every time can finish fast, sometimes it's difficult to win and the ways are odd.
Stop teasing you two, ” Suzy jumped in, “not all of Kathy’s ideas are wacky.”“Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?
Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.
Were you always such a snake, " the child asked, "or did you grow into what you are?
An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.
In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.
She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.
Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...
...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.
I don't advise. You mutn't give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment approves it.
Your oddity is your hottest commodity but you scratch yourself like it's the lottery to reject yourself mentally, spiritually & bodily.
Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.
Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.
There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way.
She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.
Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.
When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.
In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate.
These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.
Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...
...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.
The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.
But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern
I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.
Fall in love with a weird one - someone not quite right in the head - life is far more interesting when love is odd
I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.
Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.
Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.
But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.
As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "She never has.
If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.
I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.
A part of me knew... from the moment I saw her
The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.
All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.
To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.
I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.