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Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood, just like Ayrs and Jocasta. My worry is that the next war will be so big, nowhere with a decent restaurant will be left untouched.

“Tell her to go to hell,” warned my spirit, “or you’ll regret it later.” “Tell her what she wants to hear,” shrieked my nervous system, “or you’ll regret it now.” The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.

One blind man with a gun and v. little left to lose. Imagine the mess I could make.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

Vyvyan spurns praise, both giving and receiving it. He says, ‘If people praise you, you’re not walking your own path.’

An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

What value are education, breeding, and talent if one doesn’t have a pot to piss in?

You know what's more frightening than an angry man? A man who has lost his kindness.

Love came with reason with clarity. Love took time like a tree slowly growing from the ground. A love chaotic in nature, a love that swooped in fasr, was a that pertrubed me.

Imortality was a form of greed.

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

There are no monsters in the world, and no saints. Only infinite shades woven into the same tapestry, light and dark. One man’s monster is another man’s beloved. The wise know that.

I am very good at denial. Some days it is the only thing that keeps me going. Some days, it is the only thing I can control. Some days, I tell myself that my problem is the solution.

There’s a thing that happens to people when they are helpless. They become afraid of things that in their normal life wouldn’t faze them at all.

A scientist changes his opinion whwn the facts prove him wrong. A priest asks a congregation to stick to his beliefs.

Perhaps, just perhaps the Church is a mirror reflecting the flaws of humanity itself. Perhaps it's a reminder that even those who strive for perfection are ultimately human,

It’s amazing how many lies one can tell with the truth.

Some people will find it absurd that I put on a fresh coat of lipstick before going in to see Nathaniel. Here’s why I did. He needed to think that he had not inconvenienced anyone. If I looked well groomed, then it implied that I had not been sitting there for over five hours.

let me tell you a joke that is not funny. When you see a woman with stitches in her chin and ask her what she did to make her husband angry. There are two scenarios. The first is that she’s happily married and you’ve insulted their relationship. The other is that her husband is abusive and she will not thank you for endangering her by drawing attention to it.

Men who write about their lives tend to be canonized as brave auteurs of the human experience; women who do the same are guilty of oversharing.