“Sometimes we put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“Where there is reverence, there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear has a wider scope than reverence. We fear what we cannot see. We fear what we do see. We fear what we cannot know. We fear what we do know. We fear what may not happen. We fear what does happen. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. If only because it finally puts an end to fear. Myrddin”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“No pain that we suffer, lass, no trial that we experience is ever for naught. Hardships teach us qualities we can get in no other way. Like patience, faith, fortitude . . . and humility.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“By all means, marry, I told him. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. Myrddin”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“But the most rare are the ones that are both invisible to us and to others. Those we are blind to. They may be our greatest weakness of all.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“We all have weaknesses. Some we know about ourselves, and they are obvious to others too. Then we have faults that we are blind to ourselves, but are plain to everyone else. Some weaknesses we deliberately conceal from others. But the most rare are the ones that are both invisible to us and to others. Those we are blind to. They may be our greatest weakness of all.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“Sometimes the greatest blessings are those that are withheld from us.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“Sometimes we put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. Myrddin”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“It will be no greater miracle that brings us into another world to live forever with our dearest friends than that which has brought us into this one to live a lifetime with them.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“Where there is reverence, there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear has a wider scope than reverence. We fear what we cannot see. We fear what we do see. We fear what we cannot know. We fear what we do know. We fear what may not happen. We fear what does happen. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. If only because it finally puts an end to fear.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
Jeff Wheeler
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“Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read "Dora Thorne," or had a great deal in the past. It seemed only fair to her, but she supposed that people thought it very fine. Now this clear- eyed, fine-headed youth, who looked something like a student to her, made fun of it. It was poor to him, not worth reading. She looked down, and for the first time felt the pain of not understanding.”
― Theodore Dreiser, quote from Sister Carry
“I understand that art is a necessary component of a civilized society, but you cannot just go around shooting people. That's going to be a problem.”
― Kevin Wilson, quote from The Family Fang
“Why do they have windows? Is it to let a glimpse of the world in? Or for us to see out? Our own place is small perhaps, but when your old man is eaten up by his own shadow, you realize maybe that in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it.
Maybe that's what these pages of words are about.
Bringing the world to the window.”
― Markus Zusak, quote from Fighting Ruben Wolfe
“Whatever you do or dream you can do—begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, quote from Deep Blue
“Sorrow is allowed, sorrow is advised; all we have to do is let go, all we have to do is love.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
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