“You have to close some doors, honey, no matter how nice a yard they open out onto.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“forgiveness was not a one-time act. It was a decision to move on and focus on a person’s good features each time the hurt over what they’ve done crept back up on you.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“Choosing and then living with the consequences, that’s what deciding really is.” She”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“Forgiveness was not a one-time act. It was decision to move on and focus on a person's good features each time the hurt over what they've done crept back up on you.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“You don’t reason with a lightning bolt or negotiate with a hurricane,”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“Choosing and then living with the consequences, that’s what deciding really is.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“Savannah had the power to hold people long after their final sell-by date had been carved into marble. You didn’t need to be a witch, or even a psychic, to see spirits in Savannah—”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“You want to talk about right and wrong, you go to Sunday school. This ain’t about right and wrong. Someone try to hurt you, sure they doin’ wrong. But when they attack you, they are sending energy your way. Strong energy. And that energy belongs to you. You have every right to use it for your own purposes.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“but it’s too dangerous. I don’t care what Ginny’s reasons were for sharing”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“I'm trying to close the door. I have closed that door. That's why I want to leave," I protested.
"No, honey. That's not deciding, that's running. Just like you did last night when you got scared. Choosing and then living with the consequences, that's what deciding really is.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“Jilo recognize you. She know who you are. You Mercy Taylor.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“I tried to call out to them, but instead heard myself saying, "Thank you, I'd love a ride," loud enough for all the ghost hunters to hear.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“Savannah had the power to hold people long after their final sell-by date had been carved into marble.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“But when they attack you, they are sending energy your way. Strong energy. And that energy belongs to you. You have every right to use it for your own purposes.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“It ain’t about fault. This victim you talk about, he accept the intention of the person trying to hurt him. He accept it out of fear. He accept it ’cause he don’t know he don’t have to accept it.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“All right, you handsome devils, if y’all are here for this evening’s Liar’s Tour of Savannah, then you are at the right place,”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“carrying all these years. “Will Jilo let you stay now that Ginny’s gone?” “Fuck Jilo,” Oliver stated flatly. “And fuck”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“Anyone who truly thought ladies didn’t sweat never spent the summer in Georgia.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“Someone try to hurt you, sure they doin’ wrong. But when they attack you, they are sending energy your way. Strong energy. And that energy belongs to you. You have every right to use it for your own purposes.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“Little miss got an itch she need scratched.” With her free hand, Jilo rubbed her crotch and laughed again, the croaking sound scaring an owl from a nearby limb.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“When it comes right down to it, lies are pretty simple. It’s the truth that’s complicated. It’s like an onion, and there’s always another layer if you keep peeling.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, quote from Slaughterhouse-five: The Children's Crusade, A Duty-dance with Death
“Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.”
― China Miéville, quote from Kraken
“I want to fall into him. I want to let someone else carry this weight, even if just for a little bit. But it's been too long.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Letters to the Lost
“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Alkimist
“It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in good faith and without bombast, that art could morally influence the world. Today, the idea has largely been dismissed, as it must in a mass media society where art's principal social role is to be investment capital, or, in the simplest way, bullion. We still have political art, but we have no effective political art. An artist must be famous to be heard, but as he acquires fame, so his work accumulates 'value' and becomes, ipso-facto, harmless. As far as today's politics is concerned, most art aspires to the condition of Muzak. It provides the background hum for power.”
― Robert Hughes, quote from The Shock of the New
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