Quotes of: Stevens Keyword

Why do we say ‘the cockles of your heart’?” David said. “Nothing to do with whelks, I suppose.

King of the Badgers

It made me think how different everything might have been if we had both been born in Terravin.

The Kiss of Deception

Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods… But even the great can tremble with fear. Even the great can fall

The Kiss of Deception

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.

Ransom

Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

River of Stars

It is not easy, she thinks, to make your way in the world while insisting on a new path.

River of Stars

This is not the way things are done in Boy’s Own Adventure books. I recall no mentions of homosexual gang-rape and cannibalism

Retromancer

Need to get to Ruislip by sparrow-fart though', said the squadron leader. 'Think you can do that? Can I come along for the ride?

Retromancer

Why would you accept the Jesus of the Bible, if you have rejected the Bible of Jesus?

The Spiritual Top 50

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.

Such Is My Beloved

Besides, if you are who you claim to be, that makes you my true queen. Therefore, you have my loyalty.

Scarlet

And I know when your lips meet mine I feel as though I have never been kissed before.

Seduction of a Proper Gentleman

When a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong.

Seduction of a Proper Gentleman

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

Summer Island

If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.

My Best Friend's Girl