Rick Bragg Ava's Man Quotes & Sayings

Larry Hein, who wrote the blessing: May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is Father, Son, and Spirit — Brennan Manning

This kiss was different from the first one under the olive tree. That one had been unplanned, she was pretty sure. This kiss had intention and hunger branded all over it. It was like one of those kisses you read about in fairy tales - but Alana had never imagined that such a kiss could cause bone-trembling shivers as well as bliss. She'd never considered the downside of the awakening kiss, of how the princess felt when the hero tore through the thorns or scaled the tower and speared heat and sex and life-changing energy into the princess's world. — Pamela Aares

There's shit that's random and shit you can control. It's up to you to choose what you'll react to and how to make your mark. What do you choose to control? — Cat Porter

Basic atheism is not a belief. It is the lack of belief. There is a difference between believing there is no god and not believing there is a god - both are atheistic, though popular usage has ignored the latter. — Dan Barker

If I wasn't doing SportsCenter, I'd still be on the couch watching my favorite teams play. I have such passion, and I've always tried to keep that passion even in the workplace. — Linda Cohn

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them. — Theodore Bikel

Love one another dearly, always. Nothing else in the world really matters but that: to love one another. — Victor Hugo

She thought of the hawk, which must have winged its way to her father by now. SHe imagined it slewing aruond trees, dropping down. Talons closing around his upraised fist. Her father unrolling the coded message. The trap she'd set for him.

Walk into it , she willed.

You have a mind for strategy , he'd said once.

Come see, then.

See what I can do to you. See what you have done to me. — Marie Rutkoski

To explain 'why' means to find causal connections that account for the occurrence of this particular series of events to the exclusion of all others. — Yuval Noah Harari

You should beware of priests, my son. And people who don't drink vodka. Worst of all are priests who don't drink vodka. — Jonas Jonasson

It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does. — Jeremiah Burroughs