"If you were closer, I'd slap you," she said. "Let me help," I replied, and stepped closer. She promptly slapped me, which surprised me only a little. We glared at each other in the near dark, and then she looked away. "I'm sorry I slapped you," she said. "That's all right. I quite enjoyed it."

-- Kenneth Oppel

#Sorry Quotes #Dark Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.”
“I've really come into my own as an artist. I'm much more sure of my identity and understand it much better, and have accepted the fact that I like to jump around a lot in terms of who I am and what kind of music I create, and that it is okay - in fact, that is my main identity, the fact that I do that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.”
“Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.”

Source : "Stand by Your Man" (song) (1968). Cowritten with Billy Sherrill.
“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.”
“The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.”
“The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.”

Source : Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola (2012). “Jesus: A Theography”, p.156, Thomas Nelson
“And we support Senator Joseph Lieberman, that it's time for our country to consider a military preemptive strike against Iran if they will not yield to diplomacy”

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