People who lived in the mountains knew that all the truly great things had already been accomplished. They did not need to imagine ladders that would lead to heaven, or things of massive size that wou...
Strength floods in after a fall.
The intellect is of no use unless it's disciplined by the mortification of the flesh, so that it may serve the soul.
Win. Spit in their eye, Evelyn had said, cheerfully but with the tranquil acceptance of her own fate. Defiance, Catherine, is a gift of God, who is superior to nature. When nature comes to get you, ho...
What argument is left with someone you love if she is willing to break your heart?
And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.
But, Catherine, everything's that true despite us - the things they're talking about, natural laws - will always remain true despite us. What matters is what's true because of us. That's what's up for...
Craig Binky siedział w widocznym miejscu i to, co nastąpiło w tej chwili, nie umknęło uwadze ani jednej osoby. Złapał się za pierś i brew, jakby dostał zawału i udaru jednocześnie, po czym zaczął się...
Defiance, Catherine, is a gift of God, who is superior to nature. When nature comes to get you, honor God by treating it, as he would, with neither fear nor respect.
For someone who is happy, celebration is yet another channel or instrument through which happiness may course. For someone who is not, celebration is a tedious parody of existence that seems pointless...
Guariglia, what happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there's nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how y...
Harry understood that those left behind—the failures and the deformed, the suffering and the dead—are not just equal in soul, but that they are we and we are they. Struggle as we may for distinction,...
Hoheit, do you know why crows are black? No, I never thought of it. They taste lousy, and they're black as a sure sign to predators that they're crows, who will taste lousy. Why aren't they yellow? Th...
How just it would be if for our final reward we were to be made the masters of time, and if those we love could come alive again not just in memory, but in truth.
I knew even before I had desire that it would be gnarled and knotted, black and hard, a tree that would never bear fruit, a fish that would never jump, a cat that would never meow. All my life, bitter...
If people love you for your soul, your face doesn’t matter and you don’t have to be perfect.
In a life, or a portion of a life illuminated, there's a fullness and a balance that no theory or abstraction can match. Why do people waste so much time on abstraction? The life that is given to us,...
It hasn't been so easy for me, either, Alessandro said. Not recently. But I'll die before I'm mad like you. That's your choice, Orfeo told him. Me, as surely as I stand upon this commode, I'll have th...
It is said that marriage is a long war between ancient families trapped in close proximity by lust.
It was easy to argue with Quagliagliarello, if you had patience, and if you could pronounce his name.
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