“Money. What the hell were we thinking?”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“Sure, not like I got some place to be. Like with Carly, on top of Carly, possibly even inside Carly…”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“Will decided it wasn’t the cross that was doing all the damage, it was the silver along the edges.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“So much blood. Where did all the blood come from…?”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“God is God. He doesn’t need me to believe in him for him to do what he does. If that were the case, he wouldn’t be God.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“There’s a lot you don’t know, Kemosabe. Like women. Kids. And how to avoid women with kids.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“What are you staring at, mister?” “You don’t know, do you?” “Know what? What are you talking about?” “That you’re beautiful.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“I was thinking how happy I am. Right now. At this moment with you. Even before everything happened, I don’t think I’ve ever been this happy.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“This is what I do, Will. I sell people on things.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“She smiled back, and for a split second she wanted to grab his hand and tell him to ignore what was happening out there, to stay with her instead, that they could be happy here, just the two of them.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“Thanks for coming,” she smiled up at him. “I had no choice. It was either this or find a new girlfriend. As you’ve probably noticed, my history with girlfriends in the post-apocalypse has been pretty hit and miss.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“One at a time. In a gunfight, your best asset is your ability to aim and fire.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“They were everywhere. They were simply…everywhere.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“He put his arms around her, and she felt warm and wanted very much to just let herself be lost inside his arms, to be with him like this forever, the ghouls be damned. Who were they to say who she could or couldn’t be with on the last night of her life?”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“Ready?” “Thanks for coming,” she smiled up at him. “I had no choice. It was either this or find a new girlfriend. As you’ve probably noticed, my history with girlfriends in the post-apocalypse has been pretty hit and miss.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“I need to get a Kindle version…”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“The place that was supposed to be her salvation had become her prison. She realized that now, more than ever.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“No shit, Doc. Tell me something I don’t know.” “I once dated a lesbian in college.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“She smiled back at him, and before she realized it, she blurted out, “I love you.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“After all, how could you scream if you weren’t even breathing?”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“Would it be better if she couldn’t see what was happening? The end was coming, and she’d rather let it all end in the dark. It would be more merciful that way.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“Blood was hard to get out. Blood was forever. So what’s the point?”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“She wasn’t that woman anymore, but she was still a woman and they were still men, and that still mattered. Probably even more so now.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“She wished she knew, and not knowing made it somehow much, much worse.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“Here's the deal, though. Real men watch girly shit with their wives, and they don't bitch about it. Because you know what? When you're done watching that girly shit, your woman is happy. And what do happy women do? They take you to bed and bang your brains out.”
― Jasinda Wilder, quote from Falling into Us
“Sadness is an emotion you can trust. It is stronger than all of the other emotions. It makes happiness look fickle and untrustworthy. It pervades, lasts longer, and replaces the good feelings with such an eloquent ease you don’t even feel the shift until you are suddenly wrapped in its chains. How hard we strive for happiness, and once we finally have the elusive feeling in our grasp, we hold it briefly, like water as it trickles through our fingers.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Marrow
“Forgiveness, they shouted, all the while committing their wrongs. When he was younger, Yaw wondered why they did not preach that the people should avoid wrongdoing altogether.”
― Yaa Gyasi, quote from Homegoing
“Don't struggle too hard to understand people, Sym. They're hideously complicated. Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.”
― Geraldine McCaughrean, quote from The White Darkness
“The Role of the Holy Spirit in Our Praying. In Romans 8:26–27 Paul says: Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. Interpreters differ on whether the “sighs too deep for words” are the sighs the Holy Spirit himself makes or our own sighs and groans in prayer, which the Holy Spirit makes into effective prayer before God. It seems more likely that the “sighs” or “groans” here are our groans. When Paul says, “The Spirit helps us in our weakness” (v. 26), the word translated “helps” (Gk. sunantilambanomai) is the same word used in Luke 10:40, where Martha wants Mary to come and help her. The word does not indicate that the Holy Spirit prays instead of us, but that the Holy Spirit takes part with us and makes our weak prayers effective.7 Thus, such sighing or groaning in prayer is best understood to be sighs or groans which we utter, expressing the desires of our heart and spirit, which the Holy Spirit”
― Wayne A. Grudem, quote from Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine
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