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I know nothing — nothing in the world — I assure you; except that I play and dance beautifully — and French and German of course I know, to speak; but I can’t read or write them very well.
“Since I was not a gullible person, I desperately wanted to learn more. My journey of Christian apologetics had begun.”
― Tragedy To Triumph A Marriage Reconciliation Love Story: Closer To God Closer Together
― Tragedy To Triumph A Marriage Reconciliation Love Story: Closer To God Closer Together
“Someone may be sincere, but be sincerely wrong!”
― Tragedy To Triumph A Marriage Reconciliation Love Story: Closer To God Closer Together
― Tragedy To Triumph A Marriage Reconciliation Love Story: Closer To God Closer Together
“Sometimes, in order to keep from quitting, you must bully or cajole yourself. You are fatigued from this reading, though it doesn’t show, so you get no credit for your stamina. If only, when reading difficult material, your face grew red and sweaty. If only your breathing grew ragged and labored. Like during great exertion at the gym. Dead Lift and Chest Press. Hammer Curl and Lat Raise. And now, the hardest exercise of all: Lick Finger to Turn Page. You can do it, B.A.: two more sets of eight reps.”
― The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs
― The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs
“maybe she was just so used to getting away with everything, maybe she couldn’t believe she’d ever have to pay, flashing her devil-may-care grin over her shoulder as she fishtailed on her Big Wheel, leaving me behind in a spray of gravel, me always running, running to catch up”
― The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs
― The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs
“Well, this bastard isn’t retarded.” She looked up at me, her eyes hard. “Of course he isn’t,” Wesley agreed. “Psychopaths are anything but stupid. What we want to do is make the guy think we think he’s stupid. Hit him where it hurts—his goddam pride, which is hooked up with his grandiose notions of his off-the-charts IQ.”
― Postmortem
― Postmortem
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