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4aa1e42 It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began. death god inspirational jesus-christ life religion resurrection Francine Rivers
46ba03f sunshine is just beyond the clouds" Carl Joesph Gunner" Karen Kingsbury
b419638 It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly. jew jewish judaism my-name-is-asher-lev potok pretty world Chaim Potok
2db34fc Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it. Chaim Potok
93c49ad I told Doreen I would not go to the show or the luncheon or the film premiere, but that I would not go to Coney Island either, I would stay in bed. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired. Sylvia Plath
f01a459 I wait and ache. three-women Sylvia Plath
85ffdac Not being perfect hurts. Sylvia Plath
a97873b Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere Orhan Pamuk
fd642de Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. Orson Scott Card
4f78717 These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em. progress progressivism simplicity Laura Ingalls Wilder
13e6a88 The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with sleepglue, I thought I would not go to school. Anthony Burgess
1e46bc6 I was always on my oddy knocky. alone oddy-knocky on-my-own Anthony Burgess
ee9cc46 Tu sais... quand on est tellement triste on aime les couchers de soleil... -Le jour des quarante-trois fois tu etais donc tellement triste? Mais le petit prince ne repontit pas. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
b81fbf4 Si vienes, por ejemplo, a las cuatro de la tarde, a partir de las tres empezare a ser feliz. A medida que se acerque la hora me sentire mas feliz. Y a las cuatro, me agitare y me inquietare; !descubrire el precio de la felicidad! Pero si vienes en cualquier momento, no sabre nunca a que hora vestirme el corazon... Los ritos son necesarios Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
eb7b19d Rising up, I kissed Daemon's cheek. "No one trusts him, but you can't threaten him every five seconds." "Yes, I can." Jennifer L. Armentrout
0225965 I smiled then--a big, toothy idiotic smile-- and Serena didn't see it. Her eyes were closed, which was good, because I was turning into one big vagina. Jennifer L. Armentrout
17dec48 He let out a growl that shook inside my chest. "Demon." "Congrats," Roth said tightly. "You know your species. Want a cookie?" Jennifer L. Armentrout
dc9cabd Modesty belongs to losers. Jennifer L. Armentrout
6b5f75b Springing into the air, I spun and delivered a nasty I-hope-someone-sees-this spin kick. Jennifer L. Armentrout
cbd7c28 It was a Friday night, she was at a club, and a good-looking man was currently giving her the I-want-to-take-you-home-and-I-hope-I-last-longer-than-five-minutes look... and she was thinking about pie, a young adult book, and feeding her cat. She was so turning into the cat lady at twenty-seven. Sweet. jennifer-l-armentrout tempting-the-player J. Lynn
6f164db That's an alien. I'm an alien. We're aliens. Aliens everywhere, acutally, which is why we have to leave. I'm sure someone called the police by now. Jennifer L. Armentrout
55c413a I was more of a 'run into things head-first and face-plant a wall' type of fighter. Jennifer L. Armentrout
8a6547e Hell, we my end up killing each other over something stupid next week. It's a possibility. But all I do know is what I feel for you isn't going anywhere. humor Jennifer L. Armentrout
a761b78 Alex, open your eyes. Come on, baby, open those eyes." I really wanted to, because for him I'd do anything. Fight a horse of half-blood daimons? There. Tangle with ticked-off furies? Sign me up. Break a dozen or so rules for one forbidden kiss? Done. Open my eyes? Apparently that was asking too much." Jennifer L. Armentrout
85ea8ba His eyes were burning a liquid silver and his arm tightened around me. "I would give up on you, Alex. Never." "Then why are you being such a--" "What?" his voice dropped low. "I'm being what?" Infuriating. Stubborn. Thick-skulled. Freaking sexy. "Good gods, can we stop arguing and just, I don't know, make out?" Jennifer L. Armentrout
a33d989 In their minds, they still had forever. But we knew better. Forever was something we all took for granted, but the problem with forever was that it really didn't exist. Jennifer L. Armentrout
fa19567 Daemon practically knocked me over to get in one last comment. "Don't forget. There are cooler things out there than fallen angels and dead guys. Just saying." He winked. I pictured an entire legion of females swooning. Pushing him aside, I winced and clicked the off button on the webcam page. "You like seeing yourself being recorded." He shrugged. "That was fun. When do you do another?" -- Jennifer L. Armentrout
b60187a Two farewell gifts," Sadie muttered, "from two gorgeous guys. I hate my life." humor kane kane-chronicles romance sadie sadie-kane throne-of-fire walt Rick Riordan
57dc2b7 Clovis,' Nico growled, 'for the gods' sake, stop dreaming so powerfully! nico-di-angelo Rick Riordan
5119446 At the front window was something that looked like a machine gun with a cluster of barrels. "Rocket launcher?" he wondered aloud. "Nope, nope! Potatoes. Ella doesn't like potatoes." "Ella! Where are the others?" "Roof. Ogre-watching. Ella doesn't like ogres. Potatoes." Potatoes? Frank didn't understand until he swiveled the machine gun around. Its eight barrels were loaded with spuds. At the base of the gun, a basket was filled with more e.. frank-zhang heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson-and-the-olympians son-of-neptune Rick Riordan
0d5cf3b The thing about talking swords...it's hard to tell when they're kidding. They have no facial expressions. Or faces. Rick Riordan
6a1ff0a Oh, he's not like that," said Favonius. Jason flinched. "You can read my mind?" "I don't need to." Favonius tossed his bronze hoop in the air. " has the wrong impression of Cupid... until they meet him." eros favonius heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades jason-grace nico-di-angelo percy-jackson rick-riordan Rick Riordan
90a82c4 Leo resisted the urge to throw a grenade in Frank's face. "I suppose I should know who Pelops was?" "He was a prince, won his wife in a chariot race. Supposedly he started the Olympic games in honor of that." Hazel sniffed. "How romantic. 'Nice wife you have, Prince Pelops.' 'Thanks. I won her in a chariot race." frank hazel leo prince-pelops prize totally-romantic wife Rick Riordan
dbd7972 But in his heart, he to be at Camp Half-Blood. The months he'd spent there with Piper and Leo had felt more satisfying, more than all his years at Camp Jupiter. Besides, at Camp Half-Blood, there was at least a he might meet his father someday. The gods hardly ever stopped by Camp Jupiter to say hello. camp-half-blood camp-jupiter heart heroes-of-olympus home house-of-hades jason-grace percy-jackson rick-riordan Rick Riordan
d7b2798 And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at war with itself. Olympians forced to choose sides between Zeus amd Poseidon. Destruction. Carnage. Millions dead. Western civilization turned into a battleground so big it will make the Trojan War look like a water-balloon fight." "Bad," I repeated." Rick Riordan
f392fd1 At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like---" "Like our low prices at Bargain Mart!" Stheno suggested." Rick Riordan
0dd8b20 Glad you're back to normal. The makeup and the dress were a lot more intimidating than the dagger." "Get going, Sparky, before I skewer you." "Sparky?" names piper Rick Riordan
967beb3 Annabeth Thalia and I hadn't seen each other in months but between the blizzard and the thought of what we were about to do we were too nervous to talk much. Except for my mom. She talks more when she's nervous. By the time we finally got to Westover Hall it was getting dark and she'd told Annabeth and Thalia every embarrassing baby story there was to tell about me. sally-jackson Rick Riordan
ba44320 When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that would hold him to his mortal life. Otherwise he would've dissolved. I had seen Annabeth, and I had a feeling he had too. He had pictured that scene Hestia showed me--of himself in the good old days with Thalia and Annabeth, when he promised they would be a family. Hurting Annabeth in battle had shocked him into remembering that promise. It had .. the-hero-in-the-great-prophecy Rick Riordan
aa9847f Just like the good old days: marching together into the unknown, searching for missing magical weapons and risking painful death. I'd missed my buddies! Rick Riordan
787304b What's the big deal with Bejamin Frankin, anyway? I mean, so the guy invented electricity or whatever. That was hundreds of years ago." He didn't electricity," Amy said, trying not to sound too annoyed."He discovered that lightning was the same stuff as electicity. He invented lightning rods to protect buildings and experimented with batteries and-" do that. Have you ever put one on your tounge?" batteries dan Rick Riordan
25b4ffc We're on the moon," Sadie murmured. "El Paso, Texas," Bast corrected." Rick Riordan
3b2bac0 What are these guys?" He whispered "Canadians," Percy said. Frank leaned away from him. "Excuse me?" "Uh, no offense," Percy said. "That's what Annabeth called them when I fought them before. She said they live in the north, in Canada." "Yeah, well," Frank grumbled, "we're in Canada. I'm Canadian. But I've never seen those things before." canadians frank-zhang percy-jackson Rick Riordan
a549176 Stop smiling!" she ordered. "I can see you, Carter. Oh...and, uh, hullo, Walt." The pot monster made squeaky grinding noises as it stood up straight. One clunky arm rose and tried to fix Sadie's nonexistent hair. Leave it to Sadie to be self-conscious around boys, even when she's made out of pots and duct tape." walt Rick Riordan