Chapter 5 Quotes

“But to be brief. The clearness of the Scripture is twofold; even as the
obscurity is twofold also. The one is external, placed in the ministry of
the word; the other internal, placed in the understanding of the heart. If
you speak of the internal clearness, no man sees one iota in the
Scriptures, but he that hath the Spirit of God. All have a darkened heart;
so that, even if they know how to speak of, and set forth, all things in
the Scripture, yet, they cannot feel them nor know them: nor do they
believe that they are the creatures of God, nor any thing else: according
to that of Psalm xiv, 1. "The fool hath said in his heart, God is nothing."
For the Spirit is required to understand the whole of the Scripture and
every part of it. If you speak of the external clearness, nothing whatever
is left obscure or ambiguous; but all things that are in the Scriptures, are
by the Word brought forth into the clearest light, and proclaimed to the
whole world.”
― Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will

“Hyacinth. Please forgive me.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

“The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“...women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word undone. These women could be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society of dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Too much. Too fast. Too intense. The glass soul falls to the ground and shatters into a thousand words. The invisible boy becomes visible, and all of a sudden, his emotions blast neon.”
― David Levithan , Invisibility

“You must be hungry,” said Gabriel. “I was,” replied Sam. “My appetite just disappeared.”
― Phillip W. Simpson, Rapture

“Modesty is invisibility, said Aunt Lydia. Never forget it. To be seen-to be seen-is to be-her voice trembled-penetrated. What you must be, girls, is impenetrable.”
― Margaret Atwood

“As the chips dissolved on my tong, the embedded video links travelled to my brain. Tapping into my synopsis and taking hold of my senses. They transported me to another time and place. I was no longer in Mackiel's office. I was in the palace. And I was covered in blood.”
― Astrid Scholte, Four Dead Queens

“I still look up sometimes when I cross the front of the house, expecting to see her.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

“It felt a little as if we'd found a script that had been written just for us, and we were reading through the beginning quickly [...] hurrying so we could get to the part that mattered, whatever that was to be.”
― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

“We should bury the bodies,” Sam said.

Gabriel shook her head. “We haven’t got time. There are two hundred and sixty seven bodies here. Do you know how long that would take?”
― Phillip W. Simpson, Rapture

“Apology accepted. Everyone makes mistakes. You are part-human after all.”
― Phillip W. Simpson, Rapture

“One would say that, instead of a tendency to equality in human beings, the tendency is to make the most of inequalities, natural or artificial.”
― Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before The Mast - Notes from the Editors - The Franklin Library

“Well, here is the strangest riddle that we have yet found!’ exclaimed Legolas. ‘A bound prisoner escapes both from the Orcs and from the surrounding horsemen. He then stops, while still in the open, and cuts his bonds with an orc-knife. But how and why? For if his legs were tied, - how did he walk? And if-his arms were tied; how did he use the knife? And if neither were tied, why did he cut the cords at all? Being pleased with his skill, he then sat down and quietly ate some waybread! That at least is enough to show that he was a hobbit, without the mallorn-leaf. After that, I suppose, he turned his arms into wings and flew away singing into the trees. It should be easy to find him: we only need wings ourselves!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Vincent wanted a life mate. He wanted someone to share his hopes and dreams and even his sorrows with. His parents’ relationship had been full of love and support and caring. They’d been true life mates, bonded and inseparable until his mother’s death. He wanted that. He wanted someone
to laugh with and cry with and to hold close in the dark of night and the harsh light of day. It was why he’d traveled so far and wide during his life. Vincent had been actively seeking his life mate.”
― Lynsay Sands, A Bite to Remember