"If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence."

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Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.426, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#World Quotes #Saint Quotes #Adolescence Quotes

“Beauty and the devil are the same thing.”

Source : " 'He was a sexual outlaw': my love affair with Robert Mapplethorpe" by Jack Fritscher, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2016.
“If we control the ball, they pay.”
“A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.”
“Myrnin:I could murder a cheeseburger right now Oliver:focus ya fool”
“All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.”
“His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.”
“Iâ€™d love to have an opportunity to tie the greats in Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr.”
“For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.”

Source : Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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