D.C. Alexander > Quotes

“Love and a sense of security are, of course, foundations for our psychological development.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it.                                                                       —Goethe”
― D.C. Alexander, The Shadow Priest

“But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.’ Matthew 5:44 and 45,”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“No, Diane is giving me a ride.  Go to work and save your leave for our next trip to Kauai."  She squeezed his hand.  He turned to look at her and she smiled.  "We'll go for a month this time.  We'll eat coconut-mango shave ice at Joejoe's and seared ahi at Cafe Coco.  Then we'll hike to the Kalalau Valley, bathe under the little waterfalls, and pick ripe fruit from the vines and trees.  Papaya, mangos, guavas, and passion fruit.  Sunny skies, sandy beaches, palm trees, and warm blue water.  Focus on that.  And then dream about it.  Our next trip to Kauai.  To paradise."  She smiled at him as she closed her eyes.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Shadow Priest

“What are you afraid of?" "Nothing." "You aren't making sense.  You're afraid, but of nothing?" "Exactly.  That's it exactly.  Just like you, John.  Just like everyone.  Afraid of the big nothing.  Or the nothingness, I guess.  Does that make more sense?  Usually my diction improves as I drink.  Tonight maybe not so much.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Shadow Priest

“as a race, we have these wonderfully capable brains that provide us with the amazing gift of intelligence, right? The powers of reason and imagination. The ability to dream. But with these great things comes the ultimate horror—the terrible knowledge that we are all, as an absolute certainty, someday going to die. We’re probably the only creature on earth burdened with this awareness.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“the sideline of any of their playfields.  The late-blooming "ethnic" kid in the WASP neighborhood.  Newly arrived after yet another surprise relocation for the sake of his father's insatiable desire to move up to neighborhoods that were supposed to confer ever-higher status. The undersized, underdeveloped outsider and oddball.  Forgotten, marginalized, and left on the sideline to ponder his inadequacy.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Shadow Priest

“fuck,”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“Let us love one another,” it read, “because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God for God is love.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“How can a kid grow up American without reading Dr. Seuss?”
― D.C. Alexander, The Shadow Priest

“his resurgent feelings of hopelessness and despair grew, nudging him ever closer to what he perceived was the point at which a person’s mind must simply give up. An invisible frontier of oblivion. He knew it was close.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“And his sense of futility was, in turn, resurrecting the terrible despair he’d felt toward the end of his days in the service. A despair that, left unchecked, would sever the last threads of hope holding together the fragments of his tortured soul, destroying him.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“If our minds evolve in an environment over which we have no sense of security, no control, we are left with often permanent feelings of weakness, powerlessness.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“Love and a sense of security are, of course, foundations for our psychological development. The food, water, and oxygen we need to grow a healthy self-image. If we don’t receive adequate unconditional love as children, especially during our first five years, we carry that deficiency with us for the rest of our lives, seeing it manifest itself in profound emotional problems and psychological defects. If our minds evolve in an environment over which we have no sense of security, no control, we are left with often permanent feelings of weakness, powerlessness.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“Fear that death is really the end. That there is nothing else. That death encompasses the inescapable and absolute termination of our existence. A terrifying thought. One that scares us like no other.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“Dr. Seuss is a tree-hugging left-wing elitist who poisons the minds of children.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Shadow Priest

“I believe there's a place in France where the naked ladies dance.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Shadow Priest

“Revisiting the past, he wondered whether things might have turned out better—better for him, better for Hannah—if he'd just made one or two different choices at key decision points.  If only he'd done a better job of negotiating the minefield of his career.  If only he'd had the foresight or intelligence to set a course for a happier future.  But deep down he knew that he'd made the right choices, done the right things, and that what had happened to him was as unpredictable as it was arbitrary.  It was never in his power to look out for or control. Knowing this brought solace on one level, but strong anxiety on another.      In the middle of the night, he gave up on sleep, got up, turned on the outdoor floodlights, and went about trimming every single bonsai in his Japanese garden to shapely perfection before raking the decorative pebbles into an even, orderly plain.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Shadow Priest