“Dad always saw through me. Mom had a sixth sense about knowing what I needed when I needed it before I'd realized I needed it.
But Baron Spencer? He read me like a vintage Playboy in a sperm-donation clinic’s waiting room.”
Source: Angry God
“People are always clinging to what they want to hear, discarding the evidence that doesn’t fit with their beliefs, giving greater weight to evidence that does.”
Source: The Key to Everything
“Look past the headlines, I tell myself. As you’d look past the title and cover of a book, turning to a random page to see what the writing is like, how it flows, as you’ve done in the library of the Church so many times.
So many stories fall flat after the first few pages, so many declare themselves to be the ultimate work on a topic, the ultimate experience and treatise only to prove a rambling mess. So many pretty and exciting covers hide dull content and have nothing to do with the quality of the book itself.”
Source: Of Demons and Witches
“You have a very distinct presence.'
'Distinct.'
'Palpable,' Neal said.
Georgie tried not to smile. "Is that a compliment?'
'I don't know, do you want it to be?'
'Do I want people to know when I walk into a room?'
'Do you want me to know?'
'I--'
Neal glanced up over her shoulder then looked back down.
'Your boyfriend needs you.”
Source: Landline
“Madeline: I'm not a princess.
Madeline: And I don't need rescuing.
Olly: that's ok. i'm not prince.
Madeline: You think I'm pretty?
Olly: for a fairytale ghost sky princess? definately”
Source: Everything, Everything
“The love of your life can only ever be the person who chooses you for their life. It can never be the person who doesn’t choose you.”
Source: Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
“There are no dots in Tee's
Or cross in eye's
There is no connect in child neglect”
“Pericles, he reflected, was a sad case. He'd been a postman all his life, a solid, reliable worker, until one Christmas when he had stolen all the gifts he was meant to deliver: wind-chimes, scented candles, Belgian chocolates, cowbells from the Bernese Oberland. Most of the haul had been lavished on his elderly mother; the rest he had stashed in his bedroom, which the old lady, being too frail to climb the stairs, no longer cleaned.”
Source: The Element -inth in Greek
“Too many congregations look to their pastors for simple answers to problems that their pastors see as anything but simple. And too many pastors don't trust their congregations enough to say, "It's not that simple from my point of view and here’s why.”
Source: A Letter to My Congregation: An Evangelical Pastor's Path to Embracing People Who Are Gay, Lesbian and Transgender in the Company of Jesus
“We are writing the history of our time.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!