The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.
The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.
Such a distant, forgotten thing, this Light.
With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the sun and moon cannot withhold the news of the second coming. I hear it. And I fear ...
This was a Darkness born of fire.
Goodbyes are sad, but they are temporary, because as hellos ends with goodbyes, so will goodbyes start with hellos.
The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.
Am I your weakness?" "Of course you are.
War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.
No one can force you to become a monster – you hurt someone and you create your own demons.
The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.
The thing with do-overs it’s that they don’t exist. Second chances are just another chance to mess up.
In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.
Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.
Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the ...
We of alien looks or words must stick together.
Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.
Life is a gift, and should be cherished, lived and experienced. Though experience often reveals itself as pain in this world, it is still purposeful, it still has its place in the evolution of our spirit.
Six wives the King's had now.' Barak's words dragged me from my reverie. 'We can't even get one between us.
