“But just remember: a woman's like a rose; if you treat her right, she'll bloom, if you don't, she'll wilt.”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
“Fireproof doesn't mean that a fire will never come, but that when it comes you'll be able to withstand it.”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
“A real man's gotta be a hero to his wife before he can be a hero to anybody else- or he ain't a real man.”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might . . . ”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
“Yeah, it's hard to care when you're afraid of getting hurt. You know, the sad part is that when most people promise 'for better or for worse,' they really only mean for the better.”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
“On his own, he was lost. On his knees, he knew he was found.”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
“He was a fireman. And what did she do? She went around lightning fires, while he tried to put them out.”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
“Orpheus. Had the name he had taken ever suited him better? But he would be wilier than the singer whose name he had stolen. He would indeed. He would send another man into the realm of Death in the Fire-Dancer's place-and he'd make sure that he didn't come back.”
― Cornelia Funke, quote from Inkdeath
“She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws of ballistics, feral ravening, promised more delight. She tested it, shivering: I am meant to remember. Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for permanence. But then she wondered if the gemlike "clues" were only some kind of compensation. To make up for her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night.”
― Thomas Pynchon, quote from The Crying of Lot 49
“What darkness to you is light to me”
― Jules Verne, quote from Journey to the Center of the Earth
“real reason he’d gone was the one most bad decisions have in common: it had seemed like a good idea at the time.”
― Stephen King, quote from Needful Things
“I shut the bathroom door and caught sight of my face in the mirror. I had no idea how quickly it was to change, to fade. If I had, I would have stared at my reflection, memorizing it. It was the last time I would look into a real mirror for more than a decade.”
― Ruta Sepetys, quote from Between Shades of Gray
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