For the secret of friendship is a mutual admiration, and it is the realization or suspicion that that admiration is lessening on one side or the other that swiftly breaks the charm.
You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.
I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.
She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else...
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.
Druids were supposed to be forces of preservation, not destruction, and I could not dance around the fact that my stupid pride had turned me into a misbegotten cockwaffle.
Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.
—Necesito sentir que tengo el control. —Ah, ahora me has dado un desafío. — Él dio un paso más cerca. — Para hacerte perder el control.
He wasn't good with this sort of thing - with the back-and-forth dance between man and woman. He wasn't even sure if they were dancing, or if she was merely being polite.
Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.
Number eight of the ten Amazon commandments: never fight an opponent face-to-face if you couldn’t defeat him. Wait and stab him in the back later.
Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.
Since there is no one like God, therefore all people should fear Him—in other words, dread His power and be devoted to His person.
Fear in the midst of the storm is instinctive and beneficial. Fear of a storm that could happen is not. It’s an intrusive emotion that can lead us to a greatly diminished life.
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly...
Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.
[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody’s, to make him normal.
To a man who has spent centuries seeing to only his own needs, you are indeed high maintenance, but I'm finding I do not mind maintaining you. -Zacharel
Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.
It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son.
