When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
I think you'll be a great teacher," said Gary. That's his role in my life: blind encourager and ambassador of false senses of security.
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.
This was...This was sickeningly different. It was blind, unreasoning hate that just wanted blood and she didn't understand why. It left her feeling horrified and shaky.
Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.
The bitterest of ironies is that the people who make us feel the most accepted, secure, and whole are the same people who make us feel the most rejected, unstable, and heart broken.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Whether we choose the path of faith or not, we all must agree that all of life's ironies cannot be by accident.
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule.
I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.
With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.
Anger, Tessa thought, was satisfying in its own way, when you gave in to it. There was something gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.
I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.
You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.
The road was so dimly lighted. There we;re no highway signs to guide. But they made up their minds, If all roads were blind, They wouldn't give up 'til they died....
Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.
Memories lie slumbering within us for months and years, quietly proliferating, until they are woken by some trifle and in some strange way blind us to life.
