“If one knew, he wondered, the facts,
would one have to pity even the planets? If one reached what they called the heart of the matter?”
― The Heart of the Matter
would one have to pity even the planets? If one reached what they called the heart of the matter?”
― The Heart of the Matter
“You have to admit that anatomically, this ear business rivals my father’s fear that a bicycle seat could ruin your virginity”
― Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood
― Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood
“She was not unattractive until she focused her eyes on a human being, when their unblinking coldness gave the effect of the stare of an adder.”
― The Sojourner
― The Sojourner
“And Winnie, laughing at him, lost the last of her alarm. They were friends, her friends. She was running away after all, but she was not alone. Closing”
― Tuck Everlasting
― Tuck Everlasting
“A spark is exactly what it means. An igniting of something that spreads, and soon it becomes difficult to contain. The sparks, in this case, represent sin, not just any sin, a major undertaking of evil that spreads and infects life, changing the way humans live forever." " The Everlasting protects man for six of these catastrophes, but once there is a seventh, well… anything goes."
"I’m not destroying man; I’m saving man--from themselves.”
― The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity
"I’m not destroying man; I’m saving man--from themselves.”
― The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity
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