"In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him."

-- Margaret of Cortona

#Saint Quotes #Desolation Quotes

“It can be stressful if I wrote something that I realize doesn't sound right. I can write something at home and be like, "Great. Nailed it." Then I'm like, "No one should have to say those words. That doesn't make any sense." It's a lot of scrambling.”
“Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?”
“One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.”
“Let the others come after us, we welcome the chase”
“My advice to you... is to start drinking heavily.”
“Money can't buy happiness, unless you're favorite hooker's name is 'Happiness'.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 10, 2012
“Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe”
“The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.”

Source : Katharine Tynan (1922). “The Wandering Years”

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