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I still wanted to know why. As though somebody was going to answer that for me, as though any answer would be satisfying.
To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers.
Those with a low view of the Bible should not attempt listening prayer, for it can lead into dangerous gnostic listening.
I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.
Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.
From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.
God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.
It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.
I changed my mind about being a famous pop star when I realised that it meant I'd never be able to get on the Tube again.
I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me. Logan to Madeline
It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.
So are you bisexual?” I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on label. “I guess I'm bipossible,” he had said.
No one can tell you what your path is . . . but someday you'll discover it. . . and it won't be at all what you expected.
Finally, I'm recognizing that rewrites aren't some cosmic punishment for childhood wrongs but the nature of the business.
Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.
I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.
The body isn’t the foundation of your health. The body is the physical manifestation of the sum of your life experiences.
It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.
Getting a woman's body and getting her heart are two different things. And gaining her trust is another problem entirely.
Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.
In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.
Love happens! I release the desperate need for love, and instead, allow it to find me in the perfect time-space sequence.
Love yourself - Do it now! Don't wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship.
Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.
Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.
You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.
I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.
Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it’s an error not an end.
I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love you.
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
Think about that: 81 percent of Americans believe that Obama lies to them at least 'now and then' on 'important matters.'
We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.
I'm always excited to see my good buddy Richelle Mead. She cracks me up. I never get to see Veronica Roth enough, either.
I tend to keep the press at a distance, you know, and I don't really react to what they say. I react to what I feel more.
[O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit
Many doctors spend their time looking For the symptoms of illness, Rarely acknowledging that illness is itself a symptom.
All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.
The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.
My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.
For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals
Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.