With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
I've never had sex. Never wanted to. Not with a man or a woman or an animal, though my family jokes about it. And I never will. The thought of it disgusts me.
Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.
Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.
I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.
...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires
She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.
This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one shake, all on the force of a word.
I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not.
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process. It needs not a map but a history...
He thought he saw some horses, too, and a clown, but it was the faces of all those dead raptors that really bothered him. And maybe that clown a little bit.
The deeper your thoughts, the clearer your dreams. The clearer your dreams, the higher you fly. Decide to fly!
Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.
She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.
Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.
The thought that the bullet has already been fired at each of us and it is only a matter of time when it will hit, brings comfort to some and terror to others.
Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.
Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it--second chances when all hope was lost.
You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.
To sleep on our thoughts, Is better than to lose sleep over rash actions
