Being a victim is supposed to set you free; it acquits you of any agency, any sense of responsibility to the person who did you harm. , they say. , they say. Nobody ever tells you what to do if leaving isn't an option. They just call you stupid. A du...
Ever notice "demon" in the word pandemonium?
But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.
...what do you want to know? Usual stuff. Serious relationships, age, whether you eat babies. :-D I’m 30. I think babies are tasty, but empty calories, and I’ve had one long-term serious relationship...
The Lord teaches forgiveness, but some things are unforgivable.
Jesus will not accept the common distinction between righteous indignation and unjustifiable anger. The disciple must be entirely innocent of anger, because anger is an offence against both God and his neighbour.
Too bad. Game over. Insert new fucking quarter.
Sometimes she could swear that she saw, in Joe Grey's eyes, a judgment far too perceptive, a watchfulness too aware and intense for any cat. Charlie didn't understand what it was about those two [cats]. Both had a presence that set them apart from ot...
The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.
Keep making noise, I prayed, laughing. Bang drums. Clamor and ring bells for I cannot stand to hear the tired beating of this almost heart.
He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.
Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.
If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.
What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?
You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.
Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.
Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.
When you’re in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of offensive to them.
Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.
Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.
