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.
18 is like two snoozes back to back, or the birthday of two clones, blindfolded, standing back to back.
Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.
If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.
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.
The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.
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...
Christianity is like a nail," he (Yemelian Yaroslavsky). "The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes.
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.
