Et diye yedikleriniz meydan okuyor, et diye yedikleriniz baş kaldırıyor, et diye yedikleriniz savaşıyor! Et diye yediklerinizin nefesi ensenizde...
Doc seemed to gather himself to say something important, and spoke as firmly as he could, though his voice was somewhere between a whisper and a whine. Wyatt, I cannot make you another denture. No mor...
Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. (64)
Anne shrieked with laughter, but George yelled, I don’t suppose we could get a little gravity around here? and D.W. hollered back, Nope. All we got is levity. And thus began the first morning of the J...
Alice was pretty enough and played piano well, but she was educated in excess of a lady’s requirements. She was also possessed of a quiet, stubborn strength of character that had discouraged beaux les...
After all, Ignatius of Loyola, a soldier who had killed and whored and made a thorough mess of his soul, said you could judge prayer worthwhile simply if you could act more decently, think more clearl...
Doc's idea of clarifyin' a point of contention came awful close to spitting in a man's eye.
Until you’ve been there, you can’t know what it’s like to hold yourself to promises you made in good faith a long time ago.
Guess—You know how people say, Don’t borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it’s the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness. The
You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man’s vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism.
When she finished, no one clapped or even breathed, for they were still inside that sacred place that music can sometimes create.
We meant well, she thought, looking up at a sky piled with cumulus clouds turning amethyst and indigo above the clearing. No one was deliberately evil. We all did the best we could. Even so, what a me...
There's a saying in Hebrew, 'No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.
The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
That was when it came to him that the only unmixed happiness he could think of was when he quit his job with the city after that fight with Bob Wright. So he told Doc that, too, and said, I never mean...
She had challenged him on this point one night at Anne and George's, inhibitions weakened by Ronrico: Explain this Mass to me!There was a silence as he sat still, apparently looking at the dinner plat...
Once I told Ha�anala about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. . . . I told her how Abraham bargained with God for the lives of ten righteous men who might have lived there. She said to me, �Abraham sho...
Now, finally, he was in a place where none of that made any difference, where he was simply an Earthman. Only here had he come to understand that he was not a battleground—to be divided and conquered...
Matthew ten, verse twenty-nine, Vincenzo Giuliani said quietly. ‘Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it.’ But the sparrow still falls, Felipe said.
Jesus Christ, Jimmy breathed, meeting the future by turning to the ancient past.