Quotes of: Where Keyword

Where books had been a comfort before, they became a necessity, old books best of all: thick heavy tomes with stories that spread and twisted through other worlds, where he could walk like a ghost in the footsteps of other lives.

House of Windows

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he'd been waiting for her. And there she was.

Just One Year

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous People Meet

Well, here were the ugly facts. She had no mad-ninja-skillz to rely on and her family didn’t know where she was. She didn’t know where she was. The only way she was leaving was if this creature allowed it.

Stone Guardian

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart...

Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

... for most practical purposes, Tarbean had two parts: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians and courtesans...

The Name of the Wind

Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

I wear the lens of the Word and all the world transfigures into the Beauty of Christ and 'everything is eucharisteo'.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Eucharisteo has taught me to trust that there is always enough God. He has no end.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

I’d love to visit a zoo stocked with stuffed animals. Where would all the real animals be? Well, the real animals would be where they always are: in Congress. 

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

What "inspires" my books? Really I don't know. Does anyone know where exactly an idea comes from? With me all fiction pictures in my head. But where the pictures come from I couldn't say.

Letters to Children

It doesn't matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!!

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.

Living Dead Girl

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.

Lost Lake

I've attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I've wanted at least to hold up a candle so that others coming this way might not stumble too painfully.

Life's That Way: A Memoir

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture

It's her ability as an artist to see possibility where others see a blank page and, by extension, to see victory where others see certain defeat that truly empowers her...

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances around at the back, where it can't be controlled. But the front of the head is where the pain begins.

The Secret Scripture

Well, on some level, it’s similar to the psychological phenomenon of helplessness, where the will to try is lost. You get to the point where you just assume that your spontaneous call to a friend will go to voicemail or an assistant, and you decide...

The Syrian Virgin

If only [there] really was a door and [you] could walk through it into another life, where threads didn't snarl and stitches didn't go all tight and tiny. Where people loved you and didn't leave you for someone else.

The Shadow Within