What lady do you think prettiest? Said Sallie.Margaret.Which do you like the best?

Well, where is God, said Mrs Coulter, if he's alive? And why doesn't he speak anymore? At the beginning of the world, God walked in the garden and spoke with Adam and Eve. Then he began to withdraw, a...

Well … Zeus approves, Aeolus muttered. He says … he says it would be better if you could avoid saving her until after the weekend, because he has a big party planned—Ow! That‘s Aphrodite yelling at hi...

We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane and dangerous. We had awoken, or were awakening, and we were striving for an ever perfect state of wak...

We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else. But as Mr. Erskine also pointed out, Eros with his bow and arrows is not the only bl...

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

So, are we still on tonight? For our dinner? I asked.Hell, yes. We’re on for tonight. We’re on for tomorrow. We’re on for the foreseeable future..

Notwithstanding our boastful assertions to the world, for nearly a century, that our government was based on the consent of the people, it rests upon force, as much as any government that ever existed...

Me, Tarzan. You, Jane. I kill bad guy. Beat chest. Tarzan howl.

It hardly mattered. She was tired of waiting for him to acknowledge who he was. Tired of donning a false mask of gaiety when she was so much more—felt so much more—beneath. No one had ever noticed her...

He's stubborn, Tux warned in a singsong tone.

God made women too beautiful and their memories too long.

For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white...

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

At first she felt overwhelmed by the house, its airy symmetry its silence. Now she was accustomed to the place, but she caught herself wondering, Is this still Berkeley? George's neighborhood felt as...

I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it...

A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution w...

Once you talk about your shame to others you no longer feel shame

There's a darkness to everyone, you just have to let it out to see the world in new eyes.