A Quotes
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“And though I had misgiving--obvious ones, too--one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderlands, my father would need me as much as I'd need him. That's what made me so blindly ready to go off with him. What boy doesn't wait his whole childhood to walk alongside his father on equal terms?”
Source: Wintering
“And though I have done many shameful things, I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of who I am because I know who I am. I have tried to rip myself open and expose everything inside - accepting my weaknesses and strengths - not trying to be anyone else. 'Cause that never works, does it?So my challenge is to be authentic. An I believe I am today. I believe I am.”
Source: Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth
“And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.”
Source: Holy Bible: The New King James Version
“And though I liked the wandering eye of certain men, his was not the eye I sought.”
Source: An Age of Winters
“And though I may still have to hide from those who would intend me harm, I can at least stop hiding from one person in particular... Myself.”
Source: Illusions
“And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.”
Source: Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions
“And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.”
Source: The Sword of the Spirits
“And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.”
“And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout.”
“And though I was currently living a fairy tale, some part of my soul knew that happiness couldn't last forever. I didn't deserve a happily ever after, and there weren't many other cards to play when that was the truth.”
Source: Sharden
“And though I will never forgive myself for what I did, every day when the doubts creep in, I remind myself that the gods made me for their own purpose. That no matter how seemingly dark and terrible that purpose was, they trusted me to fulfill it. And I remind myself every day, that somehow, I must have proven myself worthy in their eyes because they sent me you, my soul's mate and the beacon that drew me back from Shadow.”
Source: Crown of Crystal Flame
“And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.”
“And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion: for you must consider that you live among diseased souls. And you must not lay a stumblingblock in their way, nor blow up the fire of their lust, nor make your ornaments their snares; but you must walk among sinful persons, as you would do with a candle among straw or gunpowder; or else you may see the flame which you would not foresee, when it is too late to quench it.”
“And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.”
“And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.”
Source: Doctor Wortle's School
“And though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance”
Source: The ragamuffin Gospel
“And though it may be for a brief moment,
they are momentarily freed
from their drudgery
by the spell of imagined possibility.”
Source: VERSES OF THE BROKEN: Echoes From A Fractured Mind
“And though it’s a bleak thing to admit all these years later, still I’ve never met anyone who made me feel loved the way she did. Everything came alive in her company; she cast a charmed theatrical light about her so that to see anything through her eyes was to see it in brighter colours than ordinary”
Source: The Goldfinch
“And though Lotto was thoroughly straight, the daily greedy need of his hands told her this, her husband's desire had always been more to chase and capture the gleam of the person inside the body and the body itself. And there was a part of her husband that had always been so hungry for beauty.”
Source: Fates and Furies
“And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.”
Source: Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions
“And though nobody has been dumb enough to say anything close to "You need to get laid" to my face, I resent the idea that anyone might think, if they knew my history, that I'd be slightly different by virtue of having a penis-however briefly-inside me. That is some phallocentric bullshit if I ever heard any. Hypothetical penises don't make the rules. I make the rules. I love the rules.”
Source: Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) Without a Date
“And though not everyone went in, many of us walked in on a Friday and came out ten years later. Some never came back.”
Source: La película de mi viaje
“And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“And though Remi was having worklife problems and bad lovelife with a sharp-tongued woman, he at least had learned to laugh almost better than anyone in the world, and I saw all the fun we were going to have in Frisco.”
Source: On the Road
“And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back.”
Source: Table for Two
“And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.”
“And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“And though
termites may eat you from within,
pray to grow into a wise, old tree,
for the dignity to praise alone
the sun and rains. Pray to become
a garden, to distinguish what nourishes
us from what is keeping us alive.”
“And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.”
Source: American Psycho
“And though the dead forget the dead in the house of Hades, even there I shall still remember my beloved companion.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“And though the meaning fits, there's no relief in this. I miss my beautiful friend.”
“And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.”
Source: Ragtime: A Novel
“And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole society, and bestow a similar correctness on every art and calling.”
Source: The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author
“And though the symptons of lovesickness may be many, they all share a single cause and single cure: you.”
“And though the years before I die
Stretch out interminably, I
Shall only count my life in truth
As that brief hour of happy youth.”
“And though there’s a grain of truth in every rumor, I’ve found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.”
Source: The Aviary
“And though this story does have its monsters, I’ve found that it is not one that can be so easily cleaved into the good and the bad. In the end, this was a story about people and their different shades of desperation, crashing up against each other. But there was one person who was good until the very end. And his name was Sal Singh.”
Source: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
“And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.”
Source: Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought
“And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume
“And though, truly, she sometimes felt like something inside her had disappeared, it seemed that must be a natural part of growing up. Standing out too much made one feel too alone to do it forever.”
Source: May Bird, Warrior Princess
“And though we do have him before our eyes, masked in the Sacred Host, at mass and Benediction and within our lips receive him at communion, yet to hear of him and dwell on the thought of him will do us good.”
“And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.”
“And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.”
Source: Atonement
“And though you want to last forever,
You know you never will,
You know you never will,
And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.”
“And thought about the female who, despite being human, he was beginning to see as a friend”
Source: Written in Red
“And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.”
“And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.”
Source: Thought as a System
“And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.”
“And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.”
“And Throgmorten’s arched ginger body came flying out of the creepers like a furry orange boomerang and landed slap in the basket. Christopher was deeply impressed – so impressed that he was a bit slow getting the lid down. Throgmorten came pouring over the edge of the basket again in an instant ginger stream. The Goddess seized him and crammed him back, whereupon a large number of flailing ginger legs – at least seven, to Christopher’s bemused eyes – clawed hold of her bracelets and her robe and her legs under the robe, and tore pieces off them.
Christopher waited and aimed for an instant when one of Throgmorten’s heads – he seemed to have at least three, each with more fangs than seemed possible – came into range. Then he banged the basket lid on it, hard. Throgmorten, for the blink of an eye, became an ordinary dazed cat instead of a fighting devil.”
Source: The Lives of Christopher Chant