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When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference. Lois McMaster Bujold
Frederick Buechner quote: "Go where your best prayers take you."
Go where your best prayers take you. Frederick Buechner
- Where is Polonius? - In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the other place yourself. William Shakespeare
Christopher Hitchens quote: "What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my..."
What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime. Christopher Hitchens
I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex. Jeanette Winterson
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book. E. B. White
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess. Sue Monk Kidd
First, not a word more from you about the past. There was an error in your calculations. I know what that is. It affects the whole machine, and failure is the consequence. You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure. Charles Dickens
How do I feel today? I feel as unfit as an unfiddle, And it is the result of a certain turbulence in the mind and an uncertain burbulence in the middle. What was it, anyway, that angry thing that flew at me? I am unused to banshees crying Boo at me. Your wife can’t be a banshee— Or can she? Ogden Nash
Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence. Rod McKuen
Those who find no humor in faith are probably those who find the church a refuge for their own black way of looking at life, although I think many of us find the church a refuge for a lot of our personality faults. Those of us, for example, who never learned to dance feel that the church is an ideal place for us if we can find a church that doesn't believe in dancing. Then we can get away with never having learned how to dance. You can carry this in all sorts of directions and see that the... Charles M. Schulz
I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion. Sylvia Plath
Hilary Duff quote: "Who are you?" I asked."You know who I am," he replied. "I'm..."
Who are you?" I asked."You know who I am," he replied. "I'm yours."~Clea / Sage, pg. 105 Hilary Duff
Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH:A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay'dBy your/their indiff'rence in the dank brown shadeBelow the garden...His mind's eye sees them quoted on the bottom third of a right-hand page in a (possibly) olive-bound book he read at least five years ago. When he does find them, it will be a great nuisance if no clue is given to their authorship. Edward Gorey

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