He glanced up once, eyes bored. “Please stop talking. I’m trying to eat.
I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.
"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?
The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him-and we wonder, indifferently, how much we...
Well, I always thought of God as...an uncle," she says thoughtfully."I finally came to realize he was my father.
How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?
The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.
You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]
In my experience there are only a handful of reasons for murder....Jealousy, vengeance, greed, fear and pleasure....Some killers enjoy the kill....For them it is a great game, and for the most part they are the ones I hunt.
You see, I have been at revaluing myself in the last few days. I may have some value to historians because I have destroyed a few things. The builder of your Cathedral is forgotten even now, but I, who burned it, may be remembered for a hundred years...
Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts
Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.
Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I'll send you a photo." "And I'll frame it and put it on my nightstand," said Jace.
molesting the vampire while he's too weak to fight back, iz? jace asked. i'm pretty sure that violates at least one of the accords.
Is this spirited man the cook?" she shouted. "Are you responsible for this delightful feast? What a piece of luck! … What is it you say, Mr. Apples?" "Like shittin' with the pope." "No, the other thing, less vulgar." "Whistlin' donkey." "Quite! A s...
Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.
15 "General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.
It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will do this better for being ignorant of the traditions.
We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to who you were meant to be. This is the heart spot, the center. Your whole life the skin on that place will s...
All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mattered.
