“If we keep doing what we’ve been doing, we will get what we have always got, and that isn’t enough. I want something different for my life.”
― The Sunshine Sisters
― The Sunshine Sisters
“That’s good. You don’t forgive because they deserve it. Most of the time they don’t. You forgive to keep your heart soft. To move forward without bitterness. Forgiveness is for you.”
― Atheists Who Kneel and Pray
― Atheists Who Kneel and Pray
“In the beginning of human creativity, everything good was God-given, there was no patent on manna from heaven, no copyright on the blueprints of the Mishkan, and people entertained themselves by dancing with a statue of a golden calf at the foot of Mount Sinai. The Bible is of course all in the public domain; the Lord gave His words to Moses, gratis.”
― Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood
― Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood
“Rebecca Byers, the comm officer on duty, could have been bred from a shark and a hatchet. Black eyes, sharp features, lips so thin they might as well not have existed. The story on board was that she’d taken the job to escape prosecution for killing an ex-husband. Holden liked her.”
― Leviathan Wakes
― Leviathan Wakes
“Since Marco Polo, he thought, this climate has defeated Western civilization.”
― Tree of Smoke
― Tree of Smoke
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