Quotes of: Bitter-end Keyword

I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?

Tenth of December

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

We're so young. We can't, we MUST not loose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

It turns out that you don't end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay.

The Path of Minor Planets

We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill;

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

From oriole to crow, note the decline In music. Crow is realist. But, then, Oriole, also, may be realist.

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.

Quintana of Charyn

The world he thought he knew had become an odd thing, twisting time and purpose. But it had remained an unfair universe in the end.

The Timeless Ones

The ultimate dead end is murder. My house is on a dead-end street, and it’s killing me. My house is so small it’s trying to suffocate me.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

A puzzle is not a dead-end.

From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand

Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

Until the End of Time: A Novel

... but as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you.

The Vanishers

Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.

Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

...but both their minds tending to the same point—one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed—they contrived in the end to reach it.

Wuthering Heights

Chez les Tigres noirs du Sri Lanka on entrainait les femmes combatantes qui n'étaient pas vierges à passer une journée avec une grenade dans le vagin. (ch. 2)

War, Evil and the End of History

The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.

Wolf Island

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

The Way of Kings

Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poor so the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.

The Watch That Ends the Night