“Trust your feelings never disown your instincts.”
― N.G. Osborne, quote from Refuge
“To delay love is not to deny it.”
― N.G. Osborne, quote from Refuge
“Key in life is learning when to cut loose.”
― N.G. Osborne, quote from Refuge
“There's like a billion stars and planets, you'd think there'd be life on one of them. I mean why else would God go to all that trouble?
Maybe to show us how special we are?
Yet, when I look at them I feel totally insignificant. That's the genius, no?”
― N.G. Osborne, quote from Refuge
“All you create is greater dispair in these girls' lives for you can't mourn the loss of something you never knew about in the first place.”
― N.G. Osborne, quote from Refuge
“We are hashest on the ones we love the most.”
― N.G. Osborne, quote from Refuge
“there’s any life out there?” Obaidullah shakes his head. “That against your religion?” Charlie says. “To be honestly I do not know.” “There’s like billions of stars and planets, you’d think there’d be life on one of them. I mean why else would God go to all that trouble?” “Maybe to show us how special we are.” “Yet when I look at them I feel totally insignificant.” “That is the genius, no?”
― N.G. Osborne, quote from Refuge
“He and Onno had once come to the conclusion that you had to decide for yourself whether after your death you wanted to return to your father, then you must go into fire, because that was spirit, but your mother was of course the earth, the body.”
― Harry Mulisch, quote from The Discovery of Heaven
“But these are the problems of the modern U.S. combat soldier, the constant worry about overstepping the mark and an American media that delights in trying to knock us down. Which we have done nothing to deserve. Except, perhaps, love our country and everything it stands for.”
― Marcus Luttrell, quote from Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
“Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats.”
― Edward Abbey, quote from Desert Solitaire
“What... is the wind in that door?”
― quote from Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
“Where does the flame of a candle go after is faded?”
― L.J. Smith, quote from Midnight
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