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When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound.
About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.
The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
I close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving.
I don’t mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl. And chicken wings.
Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.
If V’lane were a signpost, it would read Abandon All Personal Will, Ye Who Tread Here.
Bedevil the devil and devil be dammed. I fear no devil and bow to no man. - Adam Black
St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.
I am not to be defined. I am all things. I am the queen of everything. Every woman is.
If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering.
In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world.
A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.
I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.
The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.
She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.
I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.
What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.
I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.
Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.
It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.
The best way to leave a legacy is to believe, teach, defend, and promote what is true.
God is still here, God is still real, and God has not gone anywhere, even if you have.
I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.
Why’s the faerie so obsessed with you anyway? You’re not that cute.” (Arianna to Evie)
Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself
If you want to make the days of your life really matter, then you must love something.
Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.
Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.
Well,' I shrug, all innocent, 'we all ride our little hobbyhorses, don't we, Mr. Peel?
Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.
It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.
Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?
The more we listen to God's voice, the easier it is to recognize when He speaks to us.
In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.
I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story
Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone.
Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you know you have to hit the ground running.
Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies.
A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.
When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'
Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.