True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, w...
I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.
Mags, I don’t know how many more times I will have to say this, but here it goes. You’re amazing, you deserve the best, and I want nothing more than to be whatever you need me to be.
Trouble was, everyone always made talking out a problem sound like it was so simple and solved everything, but actually doing it, and securing the desired outcome without screwing up, seemed about as easy as rowing upriver with a teaspoon.
You want something, you go after it, and you hang on to it
She had the experience to suffer with discretion.
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
Face your fears or they will climb over your back.
We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, ...
That’s exactly what I’ll do, I thought to myself. After dinner, I’m going to ask Big Brother to teach me how to read this map. With Aunt Baba still in Tianjin, there’s obviously nobody looking out for me. I’ll just have to find my own way.
I am tempted to find reason and justice in the fact that he died as violently and indecently as he lived. But that is too ingenuous a way out. It does not explain Dimitrios; it only apologizes for him. Special sorts of conditions must exist for the c...
To conform to a sick society is to become sick.
You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie". - Eric, Club dead.
The only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark, to walk in it with eyes wide open, to be a part of it. To keep your enemies close.
Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse.
God is dead and I am his replacement.
Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.
You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception.
The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.
Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally. Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.
Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.
