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| 31df32d | Relationships are assignments. They are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth. He appraises who can learn most from whom at any given time, and then assigns them to each other. Like a giant universal.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| ea05d09 | We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform. Our corner of the universe is our own life--our relationships, our homes, our work, our current circumstances--exactly as they are. Every situation we find ourselves in is an opportunity, perfectly planned by the Holy Spirit, to teach love instead of fear. Whatever energy system we find ourselves a part of, it's our job to heal it--to purify the th.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 724820e | May I fly with angels and sing with angels and know the angels in myself and others Henceforth and forever as You have promised. Please hold my hand. Please take me home. Please move me forward. Thank You, Lord. Amen. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| f8c7182 | Every day is the prime of your life. | optimism | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | |
| e4e8f0a | Nothing > Love. | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| c7d07bf | Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 6f4caa7 | the central rule of the myth: For every feminist action there is an equal and opposite beauty myth reaction. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| c68a817 | Peace is bad for business. When the former Soviet Union fell apart, the U.S. defense industry was staring into the face of a falling market share: To grow, it would have to find a new enemy. It would also help if it expanded its product line from building fighter jets to the newfangled demand for applications involving surveillance. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 316992f | Your eyes seem to flash every time you stare at me. You look hungry when you look at me." A slight growl rumbled in his chest. "That's a different kind of hunger, Naomi." | romance rancher werewolves shifters paranormal urban-fantasy | Kait Ballenger | |
| 9b07f73 | Every novel is brand-new. It's never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it's merely the latest in a long line of narratives--not just novels, but narratives generally--since humans began telling stories to themselves and each other. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 55db6ca | What happens if the writer is good is usually not that the work seems derivative or trivial but just the opposite: the work actually acquires depth and resonance from the echoes and chimes it sets up with prior texts, weight from the accumulated use of certain basic patterns and tendencies. Moreover, works are actually more comforting because we can recognize elements of them from our prior reading. I suspect that a wholly original work, on.. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| dfdd9fc | The process of dehuminazing the locals was under way, and it had very little to do with veracity. The Puritan narratives would continue that process and bring the devil into the mix. At least John Smith didn't think Satan was involved. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| b44de68 | Someone had to go first, show that there was a life to be recorded here, that this place, this new set of possibilities, could inspire a new literature. Cooper set the signpost on the road, and hearty travelers have been following it ever since. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 9fb344d | the truth is that grammar is always interesting, always useful. Mastering the logic of grammar contributes, in a mysterious way that again evokes some process of osmosis, to the logic of thought. | Francine Prose | ||
| e6b4f89 | So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people when they speak - the actual words and expressions they employ - than to what they . This notion of dialogue as a pure expression of character that...transcends the specifics of time and place may be partly why the conversations in the works of writers such as Austen and Bronte often sound fresh and astonishingly contemporary... | Francine Prose | ||
| 586faa9 | It is the rarest of qualities: to feel something--anything--for someone beside yourself. And in my experience it is rarer still to have empathy for people you don't know. | Francine Prose | ||
| f8a1e70 | vinegar of the interrogator with the oil of a flirt, | Francine Prose | ||
| 3a33b85 | Every so often I'll hear writers say that there are other writers they would read if for no other reason than to marvel at the skill with which they can put together the sort of sentences that move us to read closely, to disassemble and reassemble them, much the way a mechanic might learn about an engine by taking it apart. | Francine Prose | ||
| 515a21a | If we want to write, it makes sense to read--and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would. | Francine Prose | ||
| f5fed98 | A woman would have to be crazy to marry, or even have sex with, a man who would prosecute every lover's quarrel like a criminal case | Francine Prose | ||
| 89b42a3 | Jesus came to set the captives free! | Rebecca Brown | ||
| ae40adc | I'm not sure what you want, Piper. Do you want me to send money? Would that help?" Curtiss asked. "He's not like an abandoned pet, Curtiss. God! He's your father and you could come up and help me out. That would be helpful." I was angry with him. I felt like once again he had walked away from me and left me at a critical time. When I was a junior in high school, Curtiss went away to college and left me alone to navigate life with my father,.. | Rebecca L. Brown | ||
| 7a86615 | Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'? | Richard Peck | ||
| 04e5f61 | We'd gotten him wrong. He wasn't a dunce. He was an artist. According to these pages, he'd seen us all a good deal clearer than we'd ever seen him. | Richard Peck | ||
| fa9322c | A solider must leave someone behind,' she said. 'What men do best is walk away from women. Wars are handy for that. | Richard Peck | ||
| 6e93bae | Blue lightning flashed in the kitchen, and for a split second you could see every calendar on the wall in there. Than an almighty explosion like the crack of doom. She'd rolled a cherry bomb across the floor, and it went off right under the eight feet of the Cowgill brothers, the three big bruisers and Ernie. | Richard Peck | ||
| 289e0c8 | I'd seen this happen several times before, in different institutions, but it was no less remarkable on each occasion: the words were like the flow of water over coals, taking away crackling heat and leaving only a steaming whisper, a perhaps momentary but nonetheless effective remission from deep-burning fire. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 54825bd | The point was - he wasn't . It was as if he'd forgotten how! Jack still knew his lines, but he was out of character... Jack had acting. He was just Jack Burns - the Jack Burns at last. | John Irving | ||
| 3b24249 | Isn't it amazing? The Americans have so many good afterthoughts! | John Irving | ||
| acff4f8 | It galls me that seeking out the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant is the expected (if not altogether acceptable) behavior of male writers; it would surely benefit me, as a writer, if I had the courage to seek out more of the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant myself. But women who seek out such things are made to feel ashamed, or else they sound stridently ridiculous in defending themselves -- as if they're braggin.. | sex writing-life | John Irving | |
| f5cff5a | From Hester's bedroom--even though the door was closed--we could hear her breathing; Hester's breathing, when she'd been drinking, was something between a snore and a moan. "Why does she drink so much?" I asked Owen. "HESTER'S AHEAD OF HER TIME," he said. "What's that mean?" I asked him. "Do we have a generation of drunks to look forward to?" "WE HAVE A GENERATION OF PEOPLE WHO ARE ANGRY TO LOOK FORWARD TO," Owen said. "AND MAYBE TWO GENERA.. | John Irving | ||
| 59a30d1 | Most men don't mind if another woman watches. It's the women who are watching who don't want to be seen. | John Irving | ||
| 089e695 | The chairman of the state board of medical examiners was a retired physician who thought that President Teddy Roosevelt was the only other man in the world besides himself who had not been made from a banana. | John Irving | ||
| ce5fa08 | Ruth thought of a novel as a great, untidy house, a disorderly mansion; her job was to make the place fit to live in, to give it at least the semblance of order. Only when she wrote was she unafraid. | John Irving | ||
| e75c1aa | Once again, Jack reached for her hand. It was the only thing he knew how to do. As it would turn out, it was about the only thing he reall knew. | John Irving | ||
| 345910a | the single ingredient in American literature that distinguishes it from other literatures of the world is a kind of giddy, illogical hopefulness. It is quite technically sophisticated while remaining ideologically naive. | hopeful illogical naive | John Irving | |
| 5d289a1 | It surprised him that was the one who looked stricken with fear, as if she were a prisoner in the passenger seat and saw the fast-approaching collision seconds before the drive could react to it. Bonnie pinched her lower lip with her teeth and stared at Jack as if she were transfixed--as if were the upcoming accident, and, even though she saw him coming, she couldn't turn away. | John Irving | ||
| 6e66d75 | You are my work of art," Wilbur Larch told Homer Wells. "Everything else has just been a job. I don't know if you've got a work of art in you," Larch concluded in his letter to Homer, "but I know what your job is,and you know what it is, too." | John Irving | ||
| 3cf53ca | And when Dr. Daruwalla breathed in her dangerous aroma, he thought he'd at last identified the smell of sex, which struck him as an earthy commingling of death and flowers | John Irving | ||
| a84e0c8 | woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil. | John Irving | ||
| 690a679 | There was no solution," Tolstoy writes in Anna Karenina, "but the universal solution that life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day--that is forget oneself." | John Irving | ||
| 1ac1461 | He felt fortunate to be with Helen; she had her own ambitions and he could not manipulate here. | John Irving | ||
| c57e29b | IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT," said Owen Meany, "MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD" -- | detached oblivious prescient | John Irving | |
| 7a09516 | Behind every journey is a reason, | John Irving |