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“Your humble light the fire of your mind blinds you: If you walk with a lantern in the dark you won't see the stars.”
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“If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.”
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“God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.”
Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.55, Ignatius Press
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“speed is the curse of the age.”
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“Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.”
Source : Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.5, Harvard University Press
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“Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.”
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“The night is a tunnel ... a hole into tomorrow.”
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“It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.”