"You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them."

-- Karen Joy Fowler

#Prayer Quotes #Believe Quotes #Book Quotes

“There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask, and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.”

Source : Catch-22 ch. 5 (1961).
“A shimmery bronzer is the perfect way to look alive. If you don't want to wear makeup, mix some with moisturizer. You'll look pretty but not made-up.”
“If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Apr 11, 2013
“There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.”

Source : Charles Edward Jefferson (1908). “The Character of Jesus”
“All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud.”
“Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.”
“A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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