Alarmed and bordering on terrified, Frankie reached for the closest thing she could find that might work as a weapon – which in Louise’s house was a curling iron – and tiptoed downstairs to confront the intruder - Chapter One
They don't think up questions like that on the basis of what might be true; they concoct the questions on the basis of what might be sensational if it just happened to be true.
You can suck the life out of someone without ever touching a drop of their blood. --Raphael Sinclair
Where the hell is your sense of self-preservation, woman? You reckless, beautiful, stray cat!
Saw a show on Discovery Channel that talked about how energy and matter can't be destroyed. It can only change and that got me thinking that maybe there is something more than just this life. Dying might just be a transformation of energy.
He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.
It has struck me that people seldom listen to the meaning of underlying words.There are only a few people who recognize the silence beyond the scream,the gentle weeping that hides beyond tough statements.They hear only the words,the sentences,when th...
You arrange your life based on what "everyone" thinks of you or what you think they think of you,whoever everyone is...
He said, it's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind.
The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Sure you do. Everyone wants to play. They’re just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what’s stupid? Not trying. So just…try.
We can't go back, though we're apt to waver even as our wheels spin on.
Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [...] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.
Alone with thoughts of what should have long been forgotten, I let myself be carried away into the silent screams of delirium.
I’m a stranger behind the same set of eyes that the girl in the photo holds.
This is the real world, and only a believer walking in fellowship with His Creator and Redeemer can understand it. Everyone else is the world is experiencing a 'break with reality'.
The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.
Kei: Is there anything else you need while I'm here, Your Highness? Cabot: No, but you can leave the sarcasm in there.
[...]How can a great civilization have destroyed itself so completely?" "Perhaps,"said Apollo, "by being materially great and materially wise and nothing else.
Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
