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161 " ... there's a big difference between being judgmental and making a judgment. "
― Charles Martin , Thunder and Rain
162 " Water heals itself. Every time. I like that. And if I’m being honest, maybe I need that. "
― Charles Martin , The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd #1)
163 " Everything in me wanted to go home. To fall on my dad, tell him about Jimmy, and tell him 'I'm sorry.' But there was another part of me that would not let me do that. And that part needed to make something of the mess that was me. To walk home with something more than scars and empty hands. To be something other than a failure. I was caught in the middle of that tug-of-war. "
― Charles Martin , Long Way Gone
164 " What can’t be forgiven?’” I nodded. “It’s words. Words you can’t take back "
― Charles Martin , The Mountain Between Us
165 " You can kill my body and you’d be doing me a favor, but kill my soul and there’s no remedy for the pain. And when you’re in that place, and the pain is real bad, and you’ve been leaning into the thing causing it so long that you don’t know how to do anything other than lean, hope and hopelessness blur and you lose sight of who’s trying to hurt you and who’s trying to help. Sometimes you need somebody to stand between you and the sharp thing that hurts. To lean for you. "
― Charles Martin , Send Down the Rain
166 " In my previous life, I learned something. I remember seeing it painted on the faces of the kids in the hospital. It is this: All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need. One undeniable fear. To be known. You can stamp it out. Kill it. Box it up and hem it in. Numb it and close the door. Bury it and nail it shut. Encase it in stone. But eventually, the needs of the heart will tear the door off the hinges, unearth it, and crack the stone. No prison ever built could house it. Those of us who think we can are lying to ourselves. And those next to us. Hope never dies. "
― Charles Martin , Unwritten
167 " Broken people just need piecing back together. "
168 " Music is its own dimension and it reaches people at a level that is beneath their DNA. "
169 " Maybe each of us was once a complete whole. A clear picture. A single piece. Then something happened to crack and shatter us. Leaving us disconnected, torn and splintered. Some of us lie in a hundred pieces. Some ten thousand. Some are edged with sharp contrast. Some dim shades of gray. Some find they are missing pieces. Some find they have too many. In any case, we are left shaking our heads. It can’t be done. Then someone comes along who mends a tattered edge, or returns a lost piece. The process is tedious, painful, and there are no shortcuts. Anything that promises to be one is not. "
170 " Я такой, каким сделал меня отец. Это он меня выковал, я знаю. Но отец избавлял меня от боли через боль. Это делало меня опустошенным и больным. А ты влилась в меня и наполнила до краев. Я впервые перестал чувствовать боль.Ты дала мне то, чего не мог дать он, - любовь без секундомера. "
171 " You can’t tell a dead man you’re sorry. "
172 " ...hatred and anger does not kill hatred and anger. "
― Charles Martin , A Life Intercepted
173 " deep. Something only God can do. He both broke and filled my heart at the same time. I still don’t understand that. Over "
― Charles Martin , Water from My Heart
174 " If manhood is passed down, if it is a mantle cut from the cloth of one and draped across another, it is not done so using titles or accolades. Not hardly. It occurs there—in that spout now resting neck-high—pouring down the spine and into the belly in a language that has never been transcribed, but that every boy on the planet understands and has always understood. "
― Charles Martin , Chasing Fireflies
175 " Just because something is broken doesn’t mean it’s no good. Doesn’t mean you throw it away. It just means it’s broken, and broken is okay. I wanted to tell her that broken is still beautiful, still works, still wakes me in the morning, and at the end of every day past and those to come, I can love broken. "
― Charles Martin , Maggie (Awakening #2)
176 " But words are like bullets. Once they exit the barrel, it’s impossible to bring them back. "
― Charles Martin , The Letter Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #2)
177 " Sometimes I think that hell is two places: it's a place you end up, but it's also a place that you live before you get there. I don't know if the devil's got horns and a spear for a tail, but I don't think that's the point. The point is that hell is separate from love. If Lucifer knows anything, he knows that. And ever since Emma left, I'd known the same thing. It's a lonely, desolate place. "
― Charles Martin , When Crickets Cry
178 " Football is not played with strong arms and fast feet, it's played with heart. Grow your heart and your arms and feet will follow... You play long enough and you might find yourself in a place where your arms and feet fail you... That's when you find out what's in your heart. "
179 " I guess sometimes it's got to hurt before it can get better." I nodded. "Hearts are like that. "
180 " I opened the card. It read: SO YOU CAN FIND YOUR WAY BACK TO ME. I opened the box. It was a lensatic compass. You said, “Read the back.” I turned it over. It was engraved. MY TRUE NORTH. You hung it around my neck and whispered, “Without you, I’d be lost. "