“God is good, but the devil is not so bad to those he likes,”
“That's when I realized the chill wasn't coming from outside—it was coming from within me.”
“It's not the amount of time that makes something real. It's what happens in that time," he said solemnly. "Each moment is weighted against the next, and the moments I've spent with you have been more meaningful than almost all the ones I've had before it.”
“I have seen all kinds of things that defy the laws of nature. But I've never seen a monster. Only those that are misunderstood and mistreated.”
“Darkness engulfed me...There was no ground below me, no sky above. Only the black, and the cold.”
“The sun had begun its descent toward the horizon, and the sounds of the carnival played like a familiar song behind me.”
“He looked at me then, his deep golden eyes meeting mine, and I saw a heat in them that I felt reflecting in my own.”
“It means ‘God is good, and the devil is not so bad to those he likes.”
“Your boyfriend spent the night sleeping outside your door. I haven't decided if that's romantic or creepy yet. Maybe both.”
“As Gideon always said in the opening of his act, There is always something extraordinary in the ordinary”
“Denial is how I cope. If I just deny everything, it can't hurt me right?”
“Once you open your mind to the spirits, you can't shut it again.”
“Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn't be righter. ”
“Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.”
“Die Wahrheit ist eben kein Kristall, den man in die Tasche stecken kann, sondern eine unendliche Flüssigkeit, in die man hineinfällt.”
“Even the few serious crimes that did occur received no particular attention in the news. For well-bred people do not, after all, care to read about the social gaffes of others.”
“The nature of the world is that when we create something, we often destroy something else in the process.”
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