"If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have begun to understand the power of an ordinary human being to perform the seemingly impossible in the ..."
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
"It is when I am cold, alone, bitterly forlorn and shuttered from all hope that you will see who I truly am. And my goal is that at those most precarious of moments, what you will see is Jesus holding ..."
"When relationships lose their pitch through lack of interest and become stale or unbearable through enduring stealthy backbiting, the emotional house of cards is under attack. A painstaking reshuffle,..."
- Erik Pevernagie
"Geraldine keeps her eyes trained on him as she slowly reaches into her purse, wrapping her fingers around her gun. “…Callo, I’m so sorry that your life ended up this way,” she sighs as she gets out of..."
- Rebecca McNutt
"We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost."
- Erich Maria Remarque
"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper."
- Bruce Crown
"The car housed a hysterical bumper sticker: Save the Planet, and I permitted a moment of contemplation to truly bask in this thought. Save the planet? What a joke. Save the planet from what? From ours..."
"It takes courage and strength to be sensitive to things and even more strength and courage to own up to it or be vocal about it. Robots, the only things with a perfect lack of emotional capacity, are ..."
"A bodyguard for a pretty socialite, I was moving up in the world. Like all idiots I naturally assumed she was pretty because she was rich. You can buy anything with money, even people, even... beauty."