Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk too much? You could call it On and On Anon.
At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name. -
Her life had been blessedly unburdened by happiness. When some period of fleeting contentment ended, Sofia Mendes did not register it as outrageous, but merely noted a return to life’s normal conditio...
It was then that she experienced an instant of unprecedented clarity, a moment of wholly unanticipated certainty that God was real. The sensation fled almost as quickly as it came but left in its wake...
Its not lying, it's remembering things the way they should have been.
Maybe God is only the most powerful poetic idea we humans’re capable of thinkin’, he said one night, after a few drinks. Maybe God has no reality outside our minds and exists only in the paradox of Pe...
Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between ‘That doesn’t make sense’ and ‘I don’t understand.’ Then I must be very wisdom. I don’t understand anything.
The single craziest thing about being a priest, he’d found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life. One of his linguistics professors, a man named Sam...
Like we say back home, when you find a turtle settin’ on top of a fencepost, you can be pretty damn sure he didn’t get there on his own.
Wyatt Earp had been born, and born again, and now there would be a third life, for the iron fist that had seized his soul in childhood had lost its grip at last. The long struggle for control was over...
The world is filled with unreasonable hate. What's wrong with unreasonable love?
The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?
Dünyadaki hüznün yarısı seni istemeyen birini istemektir,
So God just leaves? John asked, angry where Emilio had been desolate. Abandons creation? You’re on your own, apes. Good luck! No. He watches. He rejoices. He weeps. He observes the moral drama of huma...
You know what? I really resent the idea that the only reason someone might be good or moral is because they're religious. I do what I do, Anne said, biting off each word, without hope of reward or fea...
Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he i...
Privileged to share in the athletic power of a large and dangerous animal willing to be controlled by the small, frail strength of a mere human being.
They were beaten [bullies]. Ninety-nine out of a hundred still are, inside. A man beats his boy, he wants a son who won't buck him. He's trying to make a coward. Mostly, it works...That's why a bully...
Bein' born is craps, he decided. He glanced at Morg and let loose that sly, lopsided smile of his. How we live is poker.
Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not...
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