Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.
Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.
she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because Cammon could read souls, but Tayse was the only one she would tell.
If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?
She shouldn't leave you. Or you shouldn't leave her. I haven't worked it out yet. But you shouldn't be apart.
Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
Every day is the start of something beautiful.
Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.
The Internet is a microcosm of society.