“People who care about each other don’t hurt each other or make each other feel small.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“And so it was that in the midst of chaos and color and light, in the glorious rebirth of a magical world, there remained two small vessels dark and drained. And those vessels were the heart and the soul of a brokenhearted young mage, sobbing alone in the sand.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“-I'm not creative like you.-
-Of course you are!-
-I don't sing or draw or act or play an instrument. I can't make things.-
-That's not what 'creative' means, you know. Creativity is in everything.-”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“On the cool stone floor of their prison, Samheed and Lani huddled together to try to sleep.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“Aaron looked at Alex as they reached the bottom of the steps. "What? What is that? Jerkface? Is that good?"
Alex snorted. "Yeah, Aaron. It's really good. I think it means she likes you.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“Maybe you could keep him away from the breakables, eh?” “Maybe I could let him crrrush you into tiny bits,” Simber”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“People who care about each other don't hurt each other or make each other feel small. Period. End of sentence. It was obvious that Liam's problem was much bigger than just feeling like he had to obey...”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“Hard stuff forces you to grow up fast...”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“I’m not stealing your people, I’m rescuing mine,”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“Shred my beard and call me Ishmael!” the captain shouted. He”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“thin, whittled stick from his pocket and began to clean his teeth. “You knew”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“There was no time to look back. Only to move forward, toward the dots on the horizon, and steer for them.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“but there was no time to marvel at his own awesomeness.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.”
― Mandy Hale, quote from The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and it's object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science.”
― Mark Twain, quote from Roughing It
“You can't walk on water holding all that weight, it just makes you sink right down. Let it go.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from There You'll Find Me
“The mind is made out of used parts, engineered by a blind watchmaker. The result is that the uniquely human areas of the mind depend on the primitive mind underneath. The process of thinking requires feeling, for feelings are what let us understand all the information that we can't directly comprehend. Reason without emotion is impotent.”
― Jonah Lehrer, quote from How We Decide
“Immanuel, God with us-that He would leave the spiritual realm and be present in the flesh and blood in such an act of humility is a staggering notion. As it is, He willingly gave His blood, in the flesh, so that others might find life, for it is written: "He did not come by water only, but by blood," and "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission." Now blood is required to give new life to the dead.
I tell you, He did not give only a small amount to satisfy this requirement. He was beaten and crushed and pierced until that blood flowed like a river for the sake of love. It was for love, not religion, that He died.
There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Immanuel's Veins
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