"Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away?"

-- Frederick William Faber

#Easter Quotes #Strong Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.”
“My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.”

Source : Anna Banks (2013). “Of Triton”, p.75, Macmillan
“You know this is a dicey situation anyway you look at it.”
“Man without mysticism is a monster.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.83, Regnery Publishing
“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”
“I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.”
“They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.”

Source : T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.420, Penguin
“I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.”

Source : Jon Ronson (2011). “The Psychopath Test”, p.165, Pan Macmillan

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