Quotes of: Familiarity-breeds Keyword

... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...

A Familiar Rain

...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...

A Familiar Rain

He heard her in his heart - whispering from the mist

A Familiar Rain

...we use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual ..

A Familiar Rain

...I want to live doubly - first with you and then afterwards in memory ...

A Familiar Rain

...our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives...

A Familiar Rain

...you need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky...

A Familiar Rain

...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...

A Familiar Rain

...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...

A Familiar Rain

I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

...evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it...

A Familiar Rain

...goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness...

A Familiar Rain

...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...

A Familiar Rain

...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...

A Familiar Rain

...there's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul...

A Familiar Rain

...the heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ...

A Familiar Rain

... your heart is your soul twinkling in the black firmament inside you...

A Familiar Rain

... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...

A Familiar Rain

...strands of your hair and tendrils of the wind spin into nothingness the memories of that day...

A Familiar Rain

...careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...

A Familiar Rain

...I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...

A Familiar Rain