In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.
Freedom is never very safe.
You have nothing. You posses nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.
The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
I continued to move my fingers across his skin exactly as I had before, but I needed to make a decision. I had reached for him, but I could back out of it by trailing my fingers down his arm and settling my hand in his, like I wanted us to be friends...
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…
You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?
Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.
Do you know what they're called? They're the Shadows That Live, Zuze. They're assassins." "Like me," said Zuzanna cheerfully.
Friends are an intersection. A route back to the world.
And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)
You’re starting to sound like one of those songs that DJ’s play when they wanna clear out the dancefloor.
CPR dummy looked like him and had clearly been stabbed. Repeatedly. In the groin. He thought she might have used the dummy for target practice, and tried not to be offended. Key word: tried.
Tomorrow’s sun is on it’s way – a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.
Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.
Baby, you’re so much of a woman, you turn me off when I hold you.
I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don’t have to learn.” Vokep shook his head grimly. “It’s the kids,” he said. “Having babies. Makes ’em propertarians. They won’t let go.” He sighed. “Touch and go, brother, ...
Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give. Almost. It is death by living.
One of the secrets to life, Epiphany, is to find your gifts and focus on those. Leave your liabilities in the dust of the road not taken. The world is an imperfect place. Everyone struggles. Successful people see trials as growth experiences, rather ...
DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme trauma that occurs at an early age and usually over an ex...
