Quotes by Ted Dekker

About Ted Dekker:

Ted Dekker is an author of Christian mystery, thriller, and fantasy novels including Thr3e, Obsessed, and the Circle Series.
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Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away.

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Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already d...

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The Prince of Hell shrugged. 'Shit Happens

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It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.

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At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.

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The throbbing shimmy spread through my hips and thighs. I could have sworn my body started to glow as if light were shooting from my fingertips and each strand of hair.

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I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?

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Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.

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Horeb bent over me and ran his hand down my neck, not stopping when his fingers reached my chest. I jerked backward. "What are you doing?" His eyes were black and intense. "A little taste before the wedding, Jayden?

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At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.

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As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.

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...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.

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How can something so wrong feel so right?

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I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately tryin...

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He will think Lochan wasn't loved, but he was, more deeply than most people are in a lifetime.

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It's always nice being fancied. It's always nice being wanted. Even it it's by the wrong person.

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The feel of her body against his was exhilarating, driving all rational thought from his head. “All right, prepare yourself, Claire Brennan.” She looked up at him curiously. “Prepare myself for what?” He gazed at her affectionately. “Repeat...

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Without a torch, I stumbled along the paths. The night was dismal. A partial moon hovered bitter and white on the horizon. It was the perfect night for murder.

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Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.

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no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough to consider the effects of greed and jealousy around them. From what she'd seen, humans were essentially troubled. For...

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He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story

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Author Bio

  • NameTed Dekker
  • DescriptionWriter
  • BornOctober 24, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist
  • WorksThree; House; Adam