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The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1) QUOTES

The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1) QUOTES

1 " The hardest thing you will ever do in life is to know for sure what is true. "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

2 " ...in the presence of God, it is less important who is right than what is right. "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

3 " Home meant a sanctuary, as common and taken for granted as the sun rising in the morning. "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

4 " What if believing was not about the good in the world? What if people had faith not because of what some superior being could do for them but what they could do when the light of something bigger than any one individual awakened within them--for the sake of others? If evil had been here since the dawn of time, maybe goodness was also here. Maybe, his mistake was thinking it was about him, his own future, his own soul, and not about this: the world needed the good that was in him. "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

5 " He'd survived by following two very important rules: don't feel anything and don't expect anything from anyone. "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

6 " Why does everyone need a label? "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

7 " When you didn't have the ocean or mountain to keep you busy, he supposed you hurled pumpkins. "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

8 " In every drop of water live over one hundred thousand microbes, so, it is quite literally alive. It is the universal solvent, required for all life. It is the beginning of all things. Water is strong enough to wear down mountains but agile enough to move through the tiniest crevice. Your body is two-thirds water and every cell in it responds to that water. "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

9 " His arm wrapped around her back in a way that was instinctual for him now. She was a puzzle piece, fitting into his side where there had always been an empty space. "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

10 " The world outside was a rolling sea and he was on a raft without a paddle. There was nothing to anchor him and no way to shore. "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

11 " Just like osmosis, the goodness in you will always attract evil. "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

12 " What if believing was not about the good in the world? What if people had faith not because of what some superior being could do for them but what they could do when the light of something bigger than any one individual awakened within them—for the sake of others? If evil had been here since the dawn of time, maybe goodness was also here. Maybe, his mistake was thinking it was about him, his own future, his own soul, and not about this: the world needed the good that was in him. "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

13 " Death lived up to Jacob’s expectations. The day he died was sunny, as it was most days on the island of Oahu where he lived. Only a few miles away, bikini-clad tourists stretched out on the sand "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

14 " that you don’t. The doc says people often block out extreme circumstances. It’s your brain’s "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

15 " There have been abductions in the area. Nine women went missing in the last year; six were found dead. Murdered. There were signs of a struggle where they found you.” Jacob’s blood froze in his veins. “Are you "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

16 " It was a point of pain, of looking out from his loathing as if it were a cocoon that had served its purpose. "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

17 " answered. “There have been abductions in the area. Nine women went missing in the last year; six were found dead. Murdered. There were signs of a struggle where they found you.” Jacob’s blood froze in his veins. “Are you saying, my mom might have been abducted, or worse, "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

18 " combing through Manoa Falls.” “I want to help.” Only the irritating tug of Jacob’s IV kept him from bounding out of bed. “There’s nothing you can do, Jacob. The doctor says you’ll be in here for another week and then…” “And then what? "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

19 " the green man was. All he knew was pressure and pain, like he’d been torn apart and put back together. “Jacob, take a deep breath. Come on, kid, breathe.” Of its own volition, the air went in. The air went out. The pain made the air rattle in his mouth. “That’s it. A few more like that, Jacob. Slow and deep. Can you understand me?” the green man asked. “Yes,” Jacob tried to say, but his voice was nothing "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)

20 " in our apartment. I don’t even remember getting into the car with her.” “She’s missing, Jacob.” “Missing?” he said, sitting up in bed despite the pain. “But she must’ve been in the car with me. How could they have rescued me and not her?” “You were inside the car when they found it. She wasn’t.” “But that doesn’t make any sense. "

― G.P. Ching , The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers, #1)