“She cried easily. Evidence that she felt much, and most often for other people. A rare and beauty filled gift.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“You rescued me when I thought nobody would. When I thought I wasn't worth the effort. You gave me everything and asked for nothing.'
She pressed her face to mine.
'If this is love on the other side of the rescue, then I want to live it. With you. But,'
She shook her head.
'But if you give you to me, then'-
she placed her palm flat across my chest
-'come heavy”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“What do you want in a woman, in life?'
I thought a moment...'The Rangers...we began to describe one another in a few simple words: El es muy bueno para cabalgar el rio. Meaning, 'He'll do to ride the river with.' In Texan, it means, 'I'd trust him with my life.'
I scratched my head. 'I want someone to ride the river with.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“They say God made man, but Sam Colt made them equal.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“What I'm trying to say, and not doing a very good job at, is...will you ride the river with me?”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“He traced a line in the dirt with his toe. ‘This is a battlefield. Has been since Cain killed Abel. And don’t let it get complicated. Gray it ain’t. It’s black and white. Good versus evil. You might as well choose sides right now.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“... there's a big difference between being judgmental and making a judgment.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“Sometimes the most courageous thing a man can do is run back across the battlefield and rescue the wounded.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“What do you dream?
To live with and alongside... rather than without and alone.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“In my experience, it’s those words on the tip of the tongue that we most need to hear. They are the key. The thing that’s missing. But you can’t pull them out. They have to be offered. Freely. And they won’t be offered until the owner trusts you with them. And to do that means they’ve got to break through a world of hurt and pain just to get them out of their mouth.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“... some people take all the pain they've been knowing their whole life and pack it down inside them where it festers, oozing pus. Gangrene of the soul. That sore then becomes them. It's what bubbles up. You can smell it.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“... I know I'm not alone and I don't walk alone. That I won't. When the thin whisper of a veil between what I can't see and what I can is pulled back and for one brief second I get a glimpse of what will be. Where the words 'might' and 'hope' intersect.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“... sometimes it's hard to see what could be, what we hope for, through the hurting part of what is, 'cause sometimes stuff hurts so much that we can't see nothing. But then sometimes what we hope for, well, seems like if we hope it long enough, hard enough, deep enough, it becomes what it.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“Greatest trick ever played on mankind is that somewhere, somebody sold us a bill of goods convincing us that evil ain’t real.” I”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“If you’re riding a dead horse… dismount.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“you know how sometimes you walk outside, like out of a cold room, and the sun is coming up and it feels warm on your face? And all you want to do is stand there and soak it up? Well, that’s kind of how I feel. I want to stand here and soak in this a while.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
“the kid was leaning against the window.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Thunder and Rain
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“Xamã uma vez ou outra ouvia os ecos amedrontadores da iminência da guerra nos Estados Unidos.”
― Noah Gordon, quote from Shaman
“Not even much survives as memory. Many of the most notable names of the summer—Richard Byrd, Sacco and Vanzetti, Gene Tunney, even Charles Lindbergh—are rarely encountered now, and most of the others are never heard at all. So it is perhaps worth pausing for a moment to remember just some of the things that happened that summer: Babe Ruth hit sixty home runs. The Federal Reserve made the mistake that precipitated the stock market crash. Al Capone enjoyed his last summer of eminence. The Jazz Singer was filmed. Television was created. Radio came of age. Sacco and Vanzetti were executed. President Coolidge chose not to run. Work began on Mount Rushmore. The Mississippi flooded as it never had before. A madman in Michigan blew up a school and killed forty-four people in the worst slaughter of children in American history. Henry Ford stopped making the Model T and promised to stop insulting Jews. And a kid from Minnesota flew across an ocean and captivated the planet in a way it had never been captivated before. Whatever else it was, it was one hell of a summer.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from One Summer: America, 1927
“She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.”
― Albert Camus, quote from The Outsider
“Holy fuck, does he know how to kiss.
I think I have an orgasm of the mouth.
A mouth-gasm. And it’s amazing.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Royally Screwed
“Jordan grimaced and said, “They’re kind of… booby-trapped.” “Booby-trapped,” she deadpanned. He looked at her innocently and shrugged as if to say it wasn’t his fault. “You know what?” Alex muttered. “I don’t even want to know how you know that.”
― Lynette Noni, quote from Akarnae
The Poisonwood Bible
Siddhartha
Atlas Shrugged
Don Quixote
The Golden Compass
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