“If people could fall apart, why couldn't they fall back together?”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“There's just one rule, just one basic law that everyone lives under : take control or be controlled.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“The answer cannot be found. That should be my new life motto.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“It seemed to her that living without control of your own will was hardly a step above not living at all.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“I don't trust you," she whispered, her gaze caught in his as if hypnotized. He was close enough to kiss. He could dominate a room and make her head spin, and his sudden vulnerability confused her. I barely know this boy. She had to remind herself of that when he ran his fingers down her arms, leaving goose bumps in his wake.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“It's a limitless new world, and we are only just beginning to explore it.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“Everytime he looked at her she felt brighter inside, and she yearned to keep his attention, to hold his gaze.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“Because when you love someone, that's what you do - you get involved.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“Well, that's the thing, isn't it? Everyone always blames the monster--but no one ever blames the one who created it. Isn't that right?" He sneered at Moira's limp form. "Tell me, who is the monster? The creation or the creator? It has to start somewhere.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“Some people never changed, could always be depended on to be exactly the way they should.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“Her mind drew him in, hid his image at its center, folded over him, the world slid into place, the chaos ceased.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
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“God went out of me
as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun
became a latrine.
God went out of my fingers.
They became stone.
My body became a side of mutton
and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.”
― Anne Sexton, quote from The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Its not living the gospel thats hard. Its life thats hard...How often do we make the mistake of talking to our youth about how hard it is...Shouldn't we instead be focusing on the doctrine of joy...? p 106”
― Sheri Dew, quote from No Doubt About It
“How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of blood to flow, mountains of suffering to pile up, sobs to become humanity's song--all without lifting a finger that we could see. You have allowed bonds of love beyond number to be painfully snapped. If you have not abandoned us, explain yourself.
We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God.”
― Nicholas Wolterstorff, quote from Lament for a Son
“Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.”
― James Crumley, quote from The Last Good Kiss
“He showed the world what can be done against the odds, against a superpower. He showed -- and this is where Vietnam and Iraq come in, that in a war between an imperialist occupier and the people who actually live there, the people will eventually prevail. They know the terrain. They have more at stake. They have nowhere else to go.”
― John Updike, quote from Terrorist
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