Light In August Lena Quotes & Sayings

If you're warm enough when you set out, you're wearing too many clothes. — Michelle Paver

When the bad guy informs you that the person you love isn't the good guy after all, you really should listen to him. — Ashley Jade

Elias Canetti once tried to imagine a world in which 'all weapons [were] abolished and in the next war only biting [was] allowed'. Can we be sure there would be no genocides in such a radically disarmed world? — Niall Ferguson

Kami's demons had somehow become mine without me even knowing them. And I swore on my life that I would fight every one of them, I would fight for her. — S.L. Jennings

In the years after the death of Petrus, Hillegond had refused all offers of marriage, certain that her knowledge of men, despite her uncountable intimate encounters with them, was seriously bescrewed. Further, she grew certain from a recurring nightmare that should she ever consider a man as a second spouse, he would strangle her in her bed with a ligature. — William Kennedy

I like the idea of someone else's love safely sealed in a song or a book. — Henry Rollins

To a police officer, a sawed off shotgun is the ultimate nightmare. You can blow someone in half! — Steven Seagal

Avoid participating in any religious community where the clear truth-claims of Scripture are ignored while contemplative and mystical practices are favored simply for their spiritual experience. Be careful of any church or ministry wherein acts of mercy and environmental stewardship are devoid of a theology of the cross and wind up being little more than the worship of created people and things. And be careful not to worship a good thing as a god thing for that is a bad thing. — Mark Driscoll

Say it, Son. Before I die." Judge braced his hands on the windowsill, his knuckles turning white from the pressure. "It's not gonna happen. I'm not gonna fall in love with him." Was he trying to convince his father or himself? "He's a warrior, JJ. But no one can live forever, Son. But I know that Austin won't go early and he won't go without a serious fight." Judge — A.E. Via

For most girls, not being a priority is a pretty good reason to end things. — Colleen Hoover

The boy went ahead with the dog, trudging across the sand, maintaining the same lethargic pace. She watched them go. And as she rinsed the sand from the board, she felt restored, somehow lighter. She wanted her old life back, just the two of them, before all the drama. But it wasn't possible. So she'd have to make do with moments like these: perfect and fleeting. — Samantha Wood