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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.
Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.
I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'
I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.
We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.
It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.
Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.
I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.
A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.
Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.
So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.
Dreams should make you think, ‘If I had the guts to do it and I didn’t care what anybody thought, this I what I’d really do’.
Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves ~Gabe
A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.
I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know this at last.
...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.
I love music and listen to music all the time, but I didn't realize how much my body needed music. I needed it more than sex.
As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.
It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.
Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.
Some people are drawn to a van Gogh or a Rembrandt. Some are attracted to exotic guns. Coins. Stamps. I am attracted to cars.
You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.
If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little way.
It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?
warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.
What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay.
She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.