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890a75a What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed, profoundly, how he perceived their motivations, their place in the world. Sherwood Smith
8434d0b Jaim says that the essence of command is to turn surprises to your favor. You get your perimeter outside the enemy's perimeter, and attack." "What does that mean, exactly?" "Oh, I don't know, some kind of military jabber. I was hoping you knew." -- Sherwood Smith
aad3c96 Many of us suffer because we think that if people don't really love us, then we will have to live forever without love. But it's not true. The greatest sense of love, which is available for us at all times, is God's love. christian-living christianity god god-s-love-for-us inspirational-love inspirational-quotes love-quotes Stormie Omartian
b76e7ba When He Must Hear What I Have to Tell Him Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. JAMES 1:19-20 OFTEN WE WIVES are tuned in to things our husbands are not. There are times when you see the truth about a situation and your husband doesn't, and you know he needs to hear your input. For example, if you see your husband about to go over a cliff by making a wro.. Stormie Omartian
324e32f Accept your husband the way he is and pray for him to grow. Then when change happens, it will be because God has worked it in him and it will be lasting. "My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him" (Psalm 62:5). Your greatest expectations must be from God, not your husband." -- Stormie Omartian
c7b19ea There are so many things we do not appreciate in our life until we recognize God's love for us in them. christian-living christianity love Stormie Omartian
3a155ea PRAYER Lord, help me to put on the full spiritual armor You have provided for me so that I can "stand against the wiles of the devil" every day. In Jesus' name I pray. GO DEEPER" Stormie Omartian
3d6fe36 But God considers the sins of unforgiveness, anger, hatred, self-pity, lovelessness, and revenge to be just as bad as any others. Stormie Omartian
ea56e9d As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel. national-autonomy politics Ben Bova
d932a69 Greek mythology has always been my Achilles elbow. Adrian McKinty
6b19a3c The riot had taken on a beauty of its own now. Arcs of gasoline fire under the crescent moon. Crimson tracer in mystical parabolas. Phosphorescence from the barrels of plastic bullet guns. A distant yelling like that of men below decks in a torpedoed prison ship. The scarlet whoosh of Molotovs intersecting with exacting surfaces. Helicopters everywhere: their spotlights finding one another like lovers in the Afterlife. And all this through .. bombs helicopters revolution riot Adrian McKinty
79ddf77 A black Mercedes Benz 450 SL pulled up. It was your classic hood auto beloved of terrorists, pimps and African dictators. car cars mercedes-benz pimps terrorists Adrian McKinty
570c919 I called to the waiter, 'bring me one of those Antares things.' Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet. Joe Haldeman
1bfb430 People had written about that, warfare based on attrition of wealth rather than loss of life. But it's always been easier to make new lives than new wealth. war Joe Haldeman
9fe814b Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar: sestina spoiler Joe Haldeman
0abc31f I tried to get through to my brother, Mike, on the Moon, but the phone company wouldn't let me place the call until I had signed a contract and posted a $25,000 bond. Joe Haldeman
9ced241 Politicians cover their mistakes with money; cooks cover their mistakes with mayonnaise; doctors cover theirs with dirt. Joe Haldeman
51412bb Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart. incarceration sadness Dennis Lehane
f58c607 I stared down the slim barrel of a gun, looked into eyes rabid with fear and hatred, and saw my reflection. Pulled the trigger to make it go away. I heard the echoes of my gunshots, smelled the cordite, and in the smoke, I still saw my reflection and knew I always would. Dennis Lehane
c46a1ab She was his wife, mother, best friend, sister, lover, and priest. mystic Dennis Lehane
b1ef25a After all your years climbing around in people's heads like a cranial janitor, do you think people know why they do things? People rationalize, they turn their delusions into something romantic that they can disguise as ethics or principles or ideals. People are selfish, Doctor- odiously, monstrously, but in so small and paltry a monstrousness that we barely notice it. Dennis Lehane
80e79a3 When it came down to it, though, you had to remember all those assholes cutting you off in traffic and walking the streets and shouting in bars and turning their music up too loud and mugging you and raping you and selling you lemon cars-all those assholes were just children who'd aged. No miracle. Nothing sacred in that. Dennis Lehane
3b538a6 It was one of those sneaky days in late winter where spring came along to get a lay of the land. Dennis Lehane
7cb16ed Confidence you haven't earned always has the brightest glow. Dennis Lehane
3a70281 The truth of himself was a lonely boy in an empty house, waiting for someone to knock on his bedroom door and ask if he was okay. Dennis Lehane
66f8f80 Love like that? Hell, it seems so pure, it's damn near criminal. Dennis Lehane
831c9e0 Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'. moving-on Dennis Lehane
c2ca4f6 You were having nightmares, Marshal. Serious nightmares." "I'm in a mental institution on an island in a hurricane," Teddy said. "Touche," Cawley said." Dennis Lehane
b9ccab6 The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves the burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But, shit, you roll up your sleeves and work--at everything--because that's what growing older is. Dennis Lehane
5e950a5 He used it on the next guard, the one in front of the fence. He disarmed him, a kid, a baby, really, and the guard said, 'You going to kill me?' 'Jesus, kid, no,' Teddy said and snapped the butt of the rifle into the kid's temple. Dennis Lehane
c01a772 Brendan Harris loved everyone now because he loved Katie and Katie loved him. Brendan loved traffic and smog and the sound of jackhammers. He loved his worthless old man who hadn't sent him a single birthday or Christmas card since he'd walked out on Brendan and his mother when Brendan was six. He loved Monday mornings, sitcoms that couldn't make a retard laugh, and standing in line at the RMV. He even loved his job, though he wouldn't be g.. Dennis Lehane
f4ba746 This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything. humankind pettiness Dennis Lehane
f3c740c You hear it most when politicians who live in places like Hyannis Port and Beacon Hill and Wellesley make decisions that affect people who live in Dorchester and Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, and then step back and say there isn't a war going on. There is a war going on. It's happening in playgrounds, not health clubs. It's fought on cement, not lawns. It's fought with pipes and bottles, and lately, automatic weapons. And as long as it doesn't.. Dennis Lehane
6bec33a I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum nuns Dennis Lehane
fe1d016 But I say their rules are bullshit. I say there are no rules but the ones a man makes for himself. Dennis Lehane
8cb3394 Maybe that's why Claire had perfected the art of invisibility. It was a form of self-preservation. You couldn't resent what you could not see. She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language that she could not understand. There was nothing timorous about her, but you got the feeling that she always had one foot out the door. If the situation got too hard, or too intense, she .. invisibility self-preservation Karin Slaughter
6438fab I found this." He put the briefcase on the table and opened the locks. She saw a stack of papers, an evidence bag with a red seal. He pulled a college notebook with a blue plastic cover from one of the pockets. Black fingerprint powder spotted the cover. "I tried to clean it up," he said, wiping the grime on the front of his sweater. "I'm sorry. It was in Allison's car and I..." He flipped through the pages, showing her the scrawled handwri.. Karin Slaughter
75d8782 because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her. Karin Slaughter
9dd9277 Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive. Karin Slaughter
389f7f1 He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves. Karin Slaughter
f7a0bc3 Every place always has somebody who doesn't fit in. That's what makes them fit in. Karin Slaughter
770817c Rage had consumed her. She hadn't wanted to just murder him. She had wanted to empty her gun into his chest. And then she wanted to fill the holes with burning oil and dance in his still-warm blood. She had felt dead inside. Karin Slaughter
3576464 somewhere on earth, there was always a book with an answer in it, and the best way to find that answer was to read every book you could get your hands on. Karin Slaughter
7797d87 We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things... inspirational-quotes Herman Melville