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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 650691c | She had been an exhausting woman to love. But he had loved her no less passionately for the hard work. | Michael Chabon | ||
| f587f87 | The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 18927ab | They had an old-fashioned sincerity...that touched Archy in this time when everything good in life was either synthesised in transgenic cyborg vats or shade-grown in small batches by a Buddhist collective of blind ex-Carmelite Wiccans. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 1d0e07e | Yet entertainment--as I define it, pleasure and all--remains the only sure means we have of bridging, or at least of feeling as if we have bridged, the gulf of consciousness that separates each of us from everybody else. The best response to those who would cheapen and exploit it is not to disparage or repudiate but to reclaim entertainment as a job fit for artists and for audiences, a two-way exchange of attention, experience, and the univ.. | entertainment writing | Michael Chabon | |
| 675a82f | He nodded then cocked his head and gave me a sharp, policeman like look, as though realizing that he had been on the wrong page with me all along. I fell under the heading of Dealing with Assholes. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 80d8db8 | He could not shake the feeling - reportedly common among ghosts - that it was not he but those he haunted whose lives were devoid of matter, sense, future. | Michael Chabon | ||
| d4df1b6 | One night the month before, back on the other side of the Belgian border, Aughenbaugh had delivered a lecture on the etymology of the word war. He said that he had looked it up and it came from an ancient Indo-European root signifying confusion. That was a foxhole night, bitter cold. The 5th Panzer Army was making its last great push west. You had to hand it to those Indo-Europeans, my grandfather thought, rolling through Vellinghausen. Con.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 82f904c | The confirmed stick-in-the-mud will always fall victim to the interventions of other people acting on impulse, because if habit is his religion, then his Satan is change, and in the end, we are all prey to temptation. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 71705d0 | I like the way she dances. She shows a heavy Pharaonic influence, I'd say, in the elbows. With perhaps just a soupcon of Snoopy in the feet. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 924c914 | But then, staring at the label on one crate, which read SWORD-CANE-DLUBECK SHOE TREE-HORA SUITS (3)-HORA ASSORTED HANDKERCHIEFS (6)-HORA Josef felt a bloom of dread in his belly, and all at once he was certain that it was not going to matter one iota how his father and the others behaved. Orderly or chaotic, well inventoried and civil or jumbled and squabbling, the Jews of Prague were dust on the boots of the Germans, to be whisked off with.. | father holocaust penmanship | Michael Chabon | |
| e97d7bd | I agreed to keep the cards a secret and asked my grandmother if she believed in magic. She said she did not but that, surprisingly, magic worked even if you did not believe in it. | humor magic trust | Michael Chabon | |
| d660ea1 | Mendel had a remarkable nature as a boy. I'm not talking about miracles. Miracles are a burden for a tzaddik, not the proof of one. Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir. There was something in Mendele. There was a fire. | philosophy | Michael Chabon | |
| 9dd9d3d | Crabtree's father was a Pentecostalist preacher somewhere out in Hogscrotum County, MO, and his mother was the editor-in-chief of a magazine for knitting-machine enthusiasts. 'She can make you anything,' went a favorite line of his. 'She made me a queer.' He had been lost to the clutch of Satan since early adolescence and hadn't seen them in years. | Michael Chabon | ||
| b10fd88 | Usually, you could rely on Americans to believe the worst about their heroes, but nobody wanted to hear that America's ascent to the Moon had been made with a ladder of bones. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 3f5a985 | His bit of pencil turned up in the seat pocket of his short trousers, but as the search for the pad continued without issue a crease appeared in the boy's domed brow. He patted himself up and down until filaments of honey floss formed between his fingertips and pockets, coating him in a gossamer down. The old man watched helpless as the boy, with mounting agitation, spun threads of loss from his palms and fingertips. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 220dcfa | The fundamental purpose of storytelling is to pass the time, which is infinite, slow, and weighs heavy in our hands. When the first storyteller, having told the first story, fell silent, somebody sitting there by the fire said, "Then what happened?" and the Age of Sequels began." -- | Michael Chabon | ||
| d0d98e8 | He also loved the city itself. Coming to and leaving Cousin Joe's, he would gorge himself on hot dogs and cafeteria pie, price cigarette lighters and snap-brim hats in store windows, follow the pushboys with their rustling racks of furs and trousers. There were sailors and prizefighters; there were bums, sad and menacing, and ladies in piped jackets with dogs in their handbags. Tommy would feel the sidewalks hum and shudder as the trains ro.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| e06af7c | Of all the tricks played by storytellers on their willing victims, the cheapest is the deception known in English as The End. An ending is an arbitrary thing, an act of cowardice or fatigue, an expedient disguised as an aesthetic choice or, worse, a moral commentary on the finitude of life. Endings are as imaginary as the equator or the poles. They draw a line, mark a point, that is present nowhere in the creation they purport to reflect an.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 98209a6 | He was twenty years old, and he had fallen in love with Rosa Saks, in the wild scholastic manner of twenty-year-old men, seeing, in the tiniest minutiae, evidence of the systematic perfection of the whole and proof of a benign creation.... The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs -- snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge -- were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and .. | Michael Chabon | ||
| fd4ae37 | luck was really stubbornness married to a knack for observation, a fluid sense of the truth, a sharp ear for lies, and a deeply suspicious nature. They'd | Michael Chabon | ||
| 9b264ba | When I read these words I saw at once a connection to my own work. Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk. | Michael Chabon | ||
| aef8ef8 | There was something stunned in the faces of the children, blinking and tentative. The slow, dark, dull submarine of the lives in which they were the human cargo had abruptly surfaced. Their blood was filled with a kind of crippling nitrogen of wonder. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 497583b | Regret, hurt, bereavement, loss, to permit the flow of even one tear at the upwelling of such feelings was to imperil ancient root systems and retaining walls. Mudslide and black avalanche would result and drown him. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 75c12b1 | You represent a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs--wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence. | Max Lucado | ||
| ab4a5c3 | If Jesus heals you instantly, praise him. If you are still waiting for healing, trust him. Your suffering is your sermon. | Max Lucado | ||
| b95c88c | You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. | Max Lucado | ||
| 75e6479 | Our task is not to whitewash nor bloat the truth. Our task is to tell the truth. Period. | Max Lucado | ||
| fe5942d | the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live so that they will see the good things you do and will praise your Father in heaven. | Max Lucado | ||
| 24ef61b | Pieces don't fit. Wine runs out. Water bottles burst. These are facts of life. But Jesus responds with this invitation: "Bring your problems to me." | Max Lucado | ||
| ae67166 | God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish his love. Our goodness cannot increase it. Our faith does not earn it any more than our stupidity jeopardizes it. God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases. | Max Lucado | ||
| 9419afc | Earthly fears are no fears at all. All the mystery is revealed. The final destination is guaranteed. Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective. | Max Lucado | ||
| 844da46 | God] dispenses his goodness not with an eyedropper but a fire hydrant. Your heart is a Dixie cup, and his grace is the Mediterranean Sea. You simply can't contain it all. So let it bubble over. Spill out. Pour forth. 'Freely you have received, freely give' (Matt. 10:8 NIV). | Max Lucado | ||
| baced13 | When Jesus says he will keep you safe, he means it. Hell will have to get through him to get to you. | hell jesus max-lucado safety security | Max Lucado | |
| 4003466 | You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner, and an anchor for every storm. You have | Max Lucado | ||
| 7ab4a00 | God owns everything and gives us all things to enjoy. He is a good shepherd to us, his little flock. Trust him, not stuff. Move from the fear of scarcity to the comfort of provision. Less hoarding, more sharing. "Do good . . . be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share." | Max Lucado | ||
| 0a47975 | God answers the mess of life with one word: grace. | Max Lucado | ||
| 8df790c | Sometimes God takes his time: | Max Lucado | ||
| a33e8cd | Love God more than you fear hell. Make major decisions in a cemetery. When no one is watching, live as if someone is. Succeed at home first. Don't spend tomorrow's money today. Pray twice as much as you fret. God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same. | Max Lucado | ||
| 73221f7 | Please don't interpret the presence of your disease as the absence of God's love. I pray he heals you. And he will, ultimately. | Thomas Nelson | ||
| bec599d | Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life" (Prov. 4:23 NCV). Do you want to be happy tomorrow? Then" | Max Lucado | ||
| ee011b9 | Worry divides the mind. The biblical word for worry (merimnao) is a compound of two Greek words, merizo ("to divide") and nous ("the mind"). Anxiety splits our energy between today's priorities and tomorrow's problems. Part of our mind is on the now; the rest is on the not yet. The result is half-minded living." | Max Lucado | ||
| fe1fa01 | Heavenly Father, loosen my grip on the things of this world. Lead me in the dance of spontaneous, cheerful giving, and let that generosity remind me always of your grace toward me, which I in no way deserve. In your Son's name I pray, amen. | Max Lucado | ||
| 38e1a62 | The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. | Max Lucado | ||
| 91aea2a | Plunge a sponge into Lake Erie. Did you absorb every drop? Take a deep breath. Did you suck the oxygen out of the atmosphere? Pluck a pine needle from a tree in Yosemite. Did you deplete the forest of foliage? Watch an ocean wave crash against the beach. Will there never be another one? Of course there will. No sooner will one wave crash into the sand than another appears. Then another, then another. This is a picture of God's sufficient gr.. | Max Lucado |