“You can’t be princesses all your life,” Mrs. Shaw said.
Joanna Shaw tried to smooth things over (with Robert's daughters). “Your father and I are just used to it, that’s all,” she told the girls. “At least you have a private bathroom. We had to share an outhouse with two toilets when we were your age.”
The girls’ eyes opened wide. They could not understand why there would be two toilets in one room, but to Joanna it seemed completely normal. “It was all we had,” she said. “We kept each other company. We chatted while we pooped.”
Source: Robert Shaw: An Actor's Life on the Set of JAWS and Beyond
“Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told of the presence of consciousness and will.”
Source: The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
“I had woken into a metal world. The smooth unflawed slopes of snow on the mountain across the valley were iron. The deeper moonshadows had a tinge of steel blue to them. Otherwise, there was no true colour. Everything was greys, black, sharp silver-white. Inclined sheets of ice gleamed like tin. The hailstones lay about like shot, millions of them, grouped up against each rock and clustered in snow hollows. The air smelt of minerals and frost.”
Source: The Wild Places
“One of these days," he said. "Everything bad will happen—one of these days.”
Source: Giovanni’s Room
“I don't like you, I love you. You're a portent for me, a sign. I've always lived by signs.”
Source: Henry and Cato
“I once had a book on the stars but now I don't. My memory serves but not stellar, ha. So I made up constellations. I made a Bear and a Goat but maybe not where they are supposed to be, I made some for the animals that once were, the ones I know about.”
Source: The Dog Stars
“This is a somewhat risky translation. It pivots on the Hebrew word for “great” gadal (#H1431 גְדִּ֖ל). This word can mean many things, including: horn, as in the horn of a powerful bull, the spike of a crown, the authority that a powerful king can wield to knock down an enemy, or gore them into bloody submission.
This word also carries God-given authority to change history—as it was used in the book of Jonah. Jehovah made six things “great”: Nineveh (Jon 1:2); the storm (Jon 1:4); the fish (Jon 2:1); the plant (Jon 4:6); the worm (Jon 4:7); the wind (Jon 4:8). Each of these items were smaller tools being used by God to prod the bigger tool, like Assyria, into playing God’s weapon to punish unfaithful Israel. (Is 9:5-6)
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Source: Lamentations: how narcissistic leaders torment church and family
“They” (her new husbands, Egypt and Babylon) heard of Jeremiah’s and Isaiah’s public declaration of divorce. (Jer 3:8; Is 50:1)
Yet another oblique reference to divorced Hagar. Hagar had been properly dismissed—by her husband, Abraham. Hagar, however, was better than Judah. She may have created division in Abraham’s household, but at least Hagar maintained her relationship with Jehovah.”
Source: Lamentations: how narcissistic leaders torment church and family
“The funeral dirge opening of Lamentations and the first three verses of Lamentations 1 reminds us that grief that emerges from a very real and painful history must be acknowledged.”
Source: Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
“An important aspect of Lamentations is the challenge to accept historical reality and to embrace God's sovereignty over history. We are called to lament over suffering and pain, but also to recognize God's larger work.”
Source: Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times