“my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true.” ThinkingTruthWonderfulMetsHusbandTwentiesCarefulLawyerVersionsAbsurdMy HusbandQuestioning Author:Isabel Allende
“It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.” GivingPainImagineWonderfulConversationSpeechAbsurdAcheWonderful ThingsConversesQuotaNarration Book:The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index Source: The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index
“God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.” WonderfulWeakChosenAbsurdSinnerQualifiedSelected Author:Francis of Assisi