"He pointed the gun at me. Then he looked up at my hand & tilted his head slightly. - Journey, he said. I had forgotten I was still holding the book. - CÃ©line, I said back in a whisper. - I love that book. - I'm only halfway through. - Have you got to the point where -- - Hey, kill me, but don't tell me the end!"

-- Steve Toltz

#Book Quotes #Journey Quotes #Gun Quotes

“We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.”
“I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days. These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is.”
“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.”
“...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.”
“On day I noticed that something happened that looked like a dramatization of the inner script of my psyche.”

Source : Carol Lynn Pearson (2009). “Embracing Coincidence”, p.12, Gibbs Smith
“It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.”
“My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.”
“I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.”

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