Illucide Quotes & Sayings

Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside ... The worst wounds I ever felt were the ones people gave to my children. Wrong my kids, you wrong me. And my hurt qualifies me to forgive you. But only for the pain you caused me when you wounded them. My children alone are qualified to forgive you for what you did to them. — Lewis B. Smedes

How can you miss something you've never really had? — Alexis Hall

I love how, whenever you tell me a story, you go backwards and forwards and tell me everything else that could possibly be happening in every direction, like an explosion. Like a flower blooming. — Andrew Smith

Yeah, well. If you're staying here in hopes of making out with Alaska, I sure wish you wouldn't. If you unmoor her from the rock that is Jake, God have mercy on us all. That would be some drama, indeed. And as a rule, I like to avoid drama."
"It's not because I want to make out with her."
"Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit." And he was right. — John Green

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music. — Lou Reed

I think that books are fundamentally educational. — Akhil Sharma

Back then, he'd have to leave at the end of August for the start of school, so the week before Labor Day became it's own tiny season of gloom, like a hundred Sunday nights crowded together. — Charles Frazier

For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin. — Robert Lanza

The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries. — Cormac McCarthy

I'm incredibly spiritual. There are like tens of thousands of denominations; I don't fit in any one of those denominations comfortably. But I have a very personal relationship with God. — Vera Farmiga

Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God's majesty. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. — Amy Heckerling

When you can't enter through the front door, kick in a window. — Liz Fichera