What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.
What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?
Satan is not going to leave. The only way to get him out is to invite God in, and God is not welcome in my mother's house.
I touch my scar to remind myself that I am not a coward. I am a Quinn.
Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.
That be the jealousy talking," Gator said, in no way perturbed. "I can't help the way the women love me. I was born with the gift. " The men hooted and made rude noises. "You were born with a gift of bullshitting. " Sam pointed out, "but that's about it. " He looked at Dahlia. "Pardon me, ma'am, but its the truth. " "I rather thought it was," she agreed.
When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.
Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.
When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are.