Canned Quotes (page 696)

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• reality
• shine
• touching

The firelight touches and transfigures her face, and we see, concretely illustrated, the impossible paradox and supreme truth—that perception is (or at least can be, ought to be) the same as Revelation, that Reality shines out of every appearance, that the One is totally, infinitely present in all particulars. Aldous Huxley

• sick
• shopping
• fall

They're bored with their boring husbands who are workaholics like my dad. They're bored with their boring lives, sick of us kids and all this puberty and rebelling, so they pop pills all day long and shop and watch the soaps, and then when it all starts to fall apart they realize they just want to be happy again, so they go to rehab to clean up their act and then start fresh. Can you relate? Terry McMillan

• moving
• faith
• mountain

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains. Wallace Stegner

• children
• sacrifice
• look

Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen. Suzanne Collins

• words
• sad
• time

When I was excited about life, I didn't want to write at all. I've never written when I was happy. I didn't want to. But I've never had a long period of being happy, Do you think anyone has? I think you can be peaceful for a long time, When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write. You see, there's very little invention in my books. What came first with most of them was the wish to get rid of this awful sadness that weighed me down . I found when I was a child that... Jean Rhys

• world
• lifting
• own

The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger- F. Scott Fitzgerald

• doubt
• trust
• self

Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive. Besides, I've become increasingly doubtful as to whether I can die at all. But let's not get into that. Jhonen Vasquez

• crying
• fall
• love

I can't help always falling upon it, and cry out with particular loudness and wailing, and become especially melancholy, when I see a dead love tied to a live love. William Makepeace Thackeray

• misunderstanding
• new
• sum

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name. Rainer Maria Rilke

• history
• justice
• hope

Once in a lifetime. The longed-for tidal wave. Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. Sophocles

• watch
• i hate you
• time

Look. I see it. You can go to all the movies and watch all the television you want. I am the end of all time. I'm not hooked up to the machine. I don't care about being labelled a misogynist, misanthropic hate addict. I don't give a fuck if some human organism calls me politically incorrect. I like the idea of people getting killed in parking lots. I stab every person who passes me. In my mind, I stab them in the face with a fucking knife. If I thought I could get away with it, I would skin... Henry Rollins

• squeezing
• keep
• keeps

I can't squeeze to keep the breezers in. Janet Evanovich

• expectation
• she
• whom

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? Jane Austen

• eating
• wellness
• manners

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. Oscar Wilde

• grief
• believe
• energy

I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing! John Gardner