Spook Book Quotes & Sayings

I've plumb forgot where I am for the instant, which is how a good lie should take you. At the same time, I'm more where I was inside myself than before Daddy started talking, which is how lies can tell you the truth. — Mary Karr

Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it. — Bootsy Collins

Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you in this way is not seeing you; he is seeing his fantasy, and when you fail to live up to that image he may turn nasty. So there may not be much difference between the man who talks down to you and the one who elevates you; both are displaying a failure to respect you as a real human being and bode ill. — Lundy Bancroft

The key to all fanatical beliefs is that they are self-confirming ... (some beliefs are) fanatical not because they are "false", but because they are expressed in such a way that they can never be shown to be false. — Neil Postman

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest — William Faulkner

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children. — Richard Linklater

Deliverance is always found on 'the mount'; living faith must first prove to God that it has taken His word and promise for victory. — Rees Howells

I thought I was investing in myself and my brand, like Kim Kardashian. When she buys these clothes, she's investing in herself, because she is a big brand and is likable. I thought I had that potential. My ego got too big. To think I could be someone like that when I was the most hated girl ever. — Heidi Montag

The greatest motivation to share the gospel w/ someone today & everyday: Another voice around the throne. A louder song for Jesus. — Matt Papa

I'm not an expert," said Cletus. "I'm a scholar. There's a difference. An expert's a man who knows a great deal about his subject. A scholar's someone who knows all there is that's available to be known about it. — Gordon R. Dickson

Ten minutes before I would have drowned in his come. Now I just wanted it off me. I wanted him off me. — Jettie Woodruff

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies. — D.H. Lawrence

Dance when you're perfectly free. — Rumi