Pilgrim At Tinker Creek Chapter 10 Quotes & Sayings

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons. — Patty Hearst

Nostalgia is possibly the greatest of the lies that we all tell ourselves. It is the glossing of the past to fit the sensibilities of the present. For some, it brings a measure of comfort, a sense of self and of source, but others, I fear, take these altered memories too far, and because of that, paralyze themselves to the realities about them. — R.A. Salvatore

The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self. — Gaston Bachelard

War is just a racket ... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. — Smedley Butler

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before. — G.K. Chesterton

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

She wasn't even into you, you know. She was just bored, and she thought you were mysterious and quiet - like, "still waters run deep." I told her that sometimes "still waters just run still — Rainbow Rowell

As we step into our life's work, we discover that we have been preparing for this our whole lives, even though in that very moment we feel insufficient. — Jeff Goins

Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it. — Richard G. Scott

Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them. It's the story. — Wendell Pierce

My dad doesn't hug me enough! — Jack Whitehall

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think. — Don Mattingly

Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive. — Joyce Carol Oates