Deviant Goodreads Quotes & Sayings

When however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is going to be trouble. — John Irving

If you forget yourself, you become the universe. — Hakuin Ekaku

Relationships are where we take our recovery on the road. — Melody Beattie

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief — Douglas Adams

Li Gui called out, "Sir, if you kill me you will kill two persons."

"How do you make that out?" asked Li Kui, staying the blow.

"At home I support my mother who is ninety years of age, and this is my only means of helping her in her old age," said Li Gui. "I never injure people, but only make them afraid. If you kill me, my old mother will die of starvation."

Li Kui who never twinkled his eyes in chopping off people's heads, paused and thought when he heard this. "Here am I trying to succour my old mother, and yet killing a man who supports his old mother. Heaven will not allow me to live if I do this. No! No! I will forgive this man.

(J.H. Jackson translation) — Shi Nai'an

Truman Flynn is a piece of paper in my coat pocket. He is a memory of water and of loss, his hand sliding free from mine, no way to hold on. — Brenna Yovanoff

I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me. — Aaron Paul

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her. — Sam Houston

Their voices were just murmurs, the distant music that a conversation makes when it's too dim for words. — Patrick Rothfuss

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way of life. When civil religion bleached the challenge from faith and left behind a watery patriotism, there was room for concern. — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy