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1 " Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore. "
― Dean Koontz , Forever Odd (Odd Thomas, #2)
2 " This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose "
3 " A broken thing can't fix itself. "
4 " All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls. "
5 " Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule. "
6 " Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust. "
7 " I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the traumas of childhood that might have deformed her into the moral monster she had become, and then to convince myself that those traumas could be balanced - and their effects reversed - by sufficient acts of kindness. "
8 " That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn. "
9 " What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred. "
10 " Evil never dies. It just changes faces. "
11 " Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost.When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on sighs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment. "
12 " You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb. "
13 " Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain. "
14 " I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational. "
15 " Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose. "
16 " She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack. "
17 " Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be. "
18 " When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential. "
19 " She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce. "
20 " This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith. "
