I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us
All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe.
We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are startled by the slightest noise.
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
Zip it kiddo. Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you later in life.
I used to have Santa and the whole coal thing, but between Wade and their father, the little shits get whatever they want. They no longer feel like they need the fat bastard!
The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.
Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.
Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.
Luxury items are those things that are mass-produced by a third party and marketed to us to purchase so that we can express our individuality.
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
I’ll touch you. Lick you. Fuck you. When I want. Where I want. And you can’t do a thing to stop me except use your safe word.
He got up slowly, not bothering to curse himself for forgetting the stop where he had to disembark. He was not used to leaving things behind; he wondered how the bus stop escaped.
We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.
Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.
...So little knows Any but God alone to value right The good before him but perverts best things To worst abuse or to their meanest use.
Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.
I don’t think this is working out between us,” I told him. “You and I want different things. It’s not me, it’s you.
The only thing we can do is to say ‘Fuck it’ over and over again, really loud, until someone stops us.
And that, Pavel, is why you shouldn't use magic for every tiny little thing. Where you can put your trust in science, that's what you should do.
Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...
