“There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.”
― Steven Gould, quote from Jumper
“What did you—" He swallowed. His voice was raspy. "What did you do to him?"
"Sightseeing. Your turn."
He shivered. "No, that's all right.”
― Steven Gould, quote from Jumper
“Why is it easier to get men to go to war than to see a counselor?”
― Steven Gould, quote from Jumper
“La mayoría de mis compras de muebles fueron estanterías. La mayoría de mis otras compras fueron libros.”
― Steven Gould, quote from Jumper
“Lo siento, abuelo, no llegué a decirte adiós. Hubiese preferido decirte hola.”
― Steven Gould, quote from Jumper
“Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.”
― Neil Abramson, quote from Unsaid
“Love is indeed blind, and it makes you imagine qualities in a person that don’t exist.”
― Zane, quote from Addicted
“Yeah, equal pay for equal work and our bodies ourselves and Gloria Steinem and all that jazz...but in that dusty dark little corner of every woman's heart where we keep our maps of Tierra del Fuego lives the hunger to fetch a powerful man his slippers on her hands and knees.”
― Tiffany Reisz, quote from Seven Day Loan
“What was dark will always be dark, I know that. Death is still death. Hatred will never be far, in this life.
But also, there is light. It is everywhere. It floods this world--the world brims with it. Once, I sat by the Coe and watched a shaft of light come down through the trees, through leaves, and wondered if there was a greater beauty, or a simpler one. There are many great beauties. but all of them--from the snow, to his fern-red hair, to my mare's eye reflecting the sky as she smelt the air of Rannoch Moor--have light in them, and are worth it. They are worth the darker parts.”
― Susan Fletcher, quote from Witch Light
“As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.”
― Rachel Held Evans, quote from A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'master'
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