Stephen

“There are some things over which we may lose faith if we have confidence in God’s power only. There is so much that looks like the mighty power of God that is not.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Is it more foolish and childish to assume there is a conspiracy, or that there is not?”
― China Miéville, The City & The City

“This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine