Doe Quotes - Page 27

• Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Hate, Reality, Suffering

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.85, Revell

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• Vee scowled at him. She is famous for that scowl. It's a look that does everything but audibly hiss.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Looks

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Philosophy, Men

  Oscar wilde (1943). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Illustrated)”, p.14, LCI

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• He shrugged. "I was...thinking." "About what?" "The fires of purgatory." She had to sit down. He wasn't making any sense now. "What does that mean?" she asked. "Patrick told me he would walk through the fires of purgatory if he had to in order to please his wife." She went over to the bed and sat down on the side. "And?" she prodded when he didn't continue. He stripped out of his clothing and walked over to her. He pulled her to her feet and stared down to her. "And I have only just realized I would do the same for you.

  Julie Garwood

  Mean, Thinking, Fire

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• Congratulations, love. You traded up. Does he treat you well?' 'He's a teddy bear,' I said. Teddy bear looked like he was suffering from murder withdrawal. (Rene and Kate on Jim!)

  Ilona Andrews

  Congratulations, Love You, Suffering

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.115, Penguin

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• He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Ideas, Matter

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.40, Anchor

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• I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.

  Tamora Pierce

  Crazy, People, Mad

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.177, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mistake, Feel Better, Men

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.256, Macmillan

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• Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time, will be hastened in his time, which is always the more convenient season. God will work when he pleases, how he pleases, and by what means he pleases. He is not bound to keep our time, but he will perform his work, honor our faith, and reward them that diligently seek him.

  Matthew Henry

  Mean, Honor, Rewards

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• isaac knows how stupid i find these things, and he finds them just as stupid as i do. like lol. now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, it's lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone's laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll, like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think any more. loll. loll!

  David Levithan

  Wall, Rip, Stupid

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• Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?" "I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  People, Ironic

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• To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Looks, World

  Martin Buber (1958). “To Hallow this Life: An Anthology”

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• Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Vanity, People

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

  Jane Austen

  Pay, Expecting, Sanguine

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.980, Ageless Reads

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• Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all.

  Paula McLain

  Real, Artist, Sweat

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.89, Ballantine Books

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• The boy heaved a sigh. "I would ask to go with you," he said, " but I have to finish my lessons. I so look forward to the day when I know everything. Then I won't have to read any more books or do any more counting." Beatrix smiled. "I don't wish to be discouraging, Rye, but it's not possible to know everything." "Mama does." Rye paused reflectively. "At least, Papa says we mus t pretend she does, because it makes her happy." "Your father," Beatrix informed him with a laugh, " is one of the wisest men I've ever known.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Father, Book, Men

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• Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

  Victor Hugo

  Suicide, Sublime, Murder

  Victor Hugo, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Llewellyn William, Frederick Lokes Slous, Mrs. Camilla Dufour (Toulmin) " Crosland (Newton Crosland, ") (1907*). “Les misérables, book 5. Hans of Iceland”

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• So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

  Epicurus

  Long, Age, Aging

  Letter to Menoeceus

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• What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

  Thomas Harris

  Needs, Coveting, Firsts

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.296, Macmillan

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• And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.

  Erving Goffman

  Believe, Self, Special

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• I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Spring, Long, Mind

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.

  Frank Zappa

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

  "No Commercial Potential: The Saga Of Frank Zappa". Book by David Walley, p. 4, 1972.

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• God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  White, Soul, Black

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.423, Library of America

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• I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?" "My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?" "Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent.

  Holly Black

  Spring, Cat, Animal

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Prayer, Order, People

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.141, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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