Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.
That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true.
Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.
The Universe mirrors you. It mirrors your thoughts, both conscious and subconscious. It mirrors your actions and reactions.
I guess I grew suspicious of both. Power and knowledge," I say. "To the Abnegation, power should only be given to people who don't want it." - Tris
We're both whisper-screaming at each other. All I can think is this is the worst possible way to break up with somebody.
this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others,
Can I get your cell phone number so we can text like normal antisocial human beings, since we are both too fucked up to have a conversation?
In attitude, faith is "restful", but in action, it is "powerful". Praying in tongues has both a restful and powerful effect upon our lives because it is an active expression of our faith.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal.
Anna loved and didn’t love sex. Anna needed and didn’t need it. Her relationship with sex was a convoluted partnership that rose from both her passivity and an unassailable desire to be distracted.
It’s impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishiments.
It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.
Am I too late?" Caleb asked as he joined them. "Did he do something stupid?" "Yeah. On both counts." Tristan stalked past Nick.
The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)... to establish a superior library reflecting the religious and intellectual traditions both of the Islamic and Western civilizations.
It was right and wrong both. Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity, joy and heartbreak.
...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.
I wish for once that she could see the her that I can see; beauty that both steals my breath and gives it back to me.
It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.
