"I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path ..."
- Roman Payne
"I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them alive'…but I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours."
- Charlie Kaufman
"The temptation is to make an idol of our own experience, to assume our pain is more singular than it is. Experience means nothing if it does not mean beyond itself: we mean nothing unless and until ou..."
- Christian Wiman
"Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)"
- Mary E. DeMuth