“...tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your head; I will speak the flowers of the field into a cloak; I will speak the racing stream into a melody for your ears and the voices of a thousand larks to sing it; I will speak the softness of night for your bed and the warmth of summer for your coverlet; I will speak the brightness of flame to light your way and the luster of gold to shine in your smile; I will speak until the hardness in you melts away and your heart is free...”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Taliesin
“They are young and life has no limits. Nothing is impossible, nothing beyond doing or knowing. The world is theirs and everything in it.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Taliesin
“How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?"
"Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Taliesin
“Only a fool demands proof of what he already knows.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Taliesin
“I will weep no more for the lost, asleep in their water graves.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Taliesin
“The female heart is a world unto itself, incomprehensible to men. Yet I perceive that you have been of a mood today: pensive, contemplative, hesitant, expectant. And you have spent the better part of the day watching me as if you thought I might follow your merlin into the sky and never return.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Taliesin
“I will write: for myself, for those who come after, and for the voices that cry out not to be forgotten.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Taliesin
“whatever is done cannot be undone, but whatever is lost can sometimes be found.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Taliesin
“There cannot be even the smallest grain of falsehood in it or it is not truth. I have discovered the source of all truth; how can I deny what I know?”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Taliesin
“She stood watching a ritual she had seen many times before, yet which now seemed odd and extremely archaic; as if everything - the hill, the ox, the Mage, the cauldron, the king, the people looking on - everything belonged to a time so far away, so obscurely ancient that it could no longer be comprehended, only felt in the pulse of blood that flowed through her veins.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Taliesin
“Little changes, like small steps all along the way, bring you to a different place. One day you wake up and things are not the same anymore.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Taliesin
Stephen R. Lawhead
Born place: in Kearney, Nebraska, The United States
Born date July 2, 1950
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“As useful as looking for objective reality can be, it is ultimately the reality as each side sees it that constitutes the problem in a negotiation and opens the way to a solution.”
― quote from Getting to Yes: Negotiating an Agreement Without Giving In
“Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.”
― Don DeLillo, quote from Mao II
“I forced a swift smile, then turned back to my glass, salvation and sanctuary viniferously bundled into one.”
― Rex Pickett, quote from Sideways
“She didn't. I hadn't seen or spoken to Hailey since I left Silence."
He frowned. "Then she made that stuff up?"
Nell sipped her coffee, then smiled. "She always made stuff up, Max. Didn't you know?"
"You're saying she was a liar?"
"Sweet, friendly Hailey. So charming, so good-tempered. And she had a way about her, didn't she? A
way of… getting people behind her. A way of making people believe her. Not exactly my strong suit,
huh?”
― Kay Hooper, quote from Whisper of Evil
“It just goes to show that what one person considers a "bad attitude" might actually just be total frustration over being pushed beyond the brink of one's mental and physical endurance.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Party Princess
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