Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him n...
God has the most incredible, unimaginable, inconceivable, and indescribable intention and design for your life.
Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief.
What is this thing? Did you make it?” “I am a chemist, aren’t I?” Laurence says. “You own a meth-lab,” Benjamin says. “That does not qualify you as a chemist.
Whatever cosmic attraction had drawn [Jess & Addie] to one another in the first place was beginning to fill in with the chinks and mortar of very real, very likeable human traits.
'The grief didn't fade, but it changed into something I could carry around with me, a noose I wore around my neck. It wasn't until I saw you that the knot loosened.'
Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.
They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.
If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.
You are blessed with luck, small one', he told Harry. 'Rejoice and give thanks - - someone wants you dead.
Wilhelm’s smile reminded Harry of his father’s sad, resigned smile, the smile of a man looking backwards because that’s where the things that made him smile were.
In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.
To be a devil isn't so bad; to be a devil that can still see beauty, still remember what it was like to be in the sight of the most holy, now that was an obscenity, and that was what I was.
...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.
One foot in Hell, one in Heaven, but there will always be a devil. Be he your enemy. Be he your friend. Be the devil your own soul for fear of the world.
All monsters are queers. Who is able to bring the dead back to life? God and the Devil. The Devil makes dead men into monsters: immortal, immoral—and queer.
We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren’t doing what we really want with our lives.
Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.
BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
