A.A. Allen Quotes

Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the heart and cools the sting.

Grief. This is what it does to people. It makes them strangers to themselves.

The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness.

The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.

In all of our battles, let's roar with the conquering powers of love and determination.

He stood there, glowing like the sun, and stared at her like she was the unbelievable one.

The greater the volume of thoughts you have to work with, the better the context you can create for developing options and trusting your choices.

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.

Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Its decision to suck up an extra helping of toddler soup would cost it dearly.

Sometimes, all you can take are memoriesBut if you’re lucky enough to capture the moment, it lives forever, immortally fixed.

Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.

Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But sometimes when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.

Evil is a cluster of well orchestrated blind spots. When it manifests itself to excess, we protest and want the blind spots that both produce it and conceal it back, and fast.

Evil is nothing more than that, which was once divine, and has fallen into shit." Indrid Night - Through A Glass Darkly.

Wit had conquered science by laughing it out of court.

Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.

America, the plum blossoms are falling.

A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.

Language was just that thing that happened when you opened your mouth at the table, squeezed a few noises out of your vocal chords, and induced Socrates thereby to pass the salt.

People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it

Do you really enjoy living a life that's so hateful? 'Cause there's a hole where your soul should be, you're losing control of it, and it's really distasteful.

Sometimes it's difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in.

...his respect, hard enough to earn in the first place, was all but impossible to win back after it was lost.

Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish more ignorant and confused than the very day we were born.

I know he's a good baby... but the challenge is to raise him into a good boy, then a good man.

There's not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome.

From His eternal perspective, it's tolerable to allow our temporary dreams to fall apart.

In a justly ordereduniverse, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.

He laid his head on Reid's shoulder and shut his eyes, buoyed toward sleep by the affectionate comb of fingers through his hair. He could stay just so, and be content for all his days.

Silence does not always imply consent. Sometimes it simply means that the silent one has opted out of a discussion with idiots.

People like us will never really understand, Evanelle said. We fell in love with the men we were supposed to be with right off the bat. But women with broken hearts, they change.

There are dark and alone times when you move forward to pursue your own journey, but the beauty in the light at the end of the tunnel is worth every sacrifice you thought you made.

In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.

I have no other possessions of value but my soul.

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

But she couldn't start this, because then it would end. Stories like this always ended. She couldn't take this pleasure, because she would spend the rest of her life missing it, hurting from it.

Things you might hear, Things you wanna believe, Things that aren't true, Things that people say, It's these THINGS that causes people to feel not wanted.

You have to thank God for the seemingly good and the seemingly bad because really, you don't know the difference [until we get to heaven].

Lift up your eyes unto mine air and see the love floating there for I am Paradise and I am everywhere.

He claimed the waters must have, indeed, been healing, because look how hard his journey was on him to get there, and how easy it was on him to get home.

Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.

Bill Bryson's is a synthesizing intellect, capable of translating myriad data into a digestible narrative – rare currency in an increasingly atomized society.

If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.

You said it was a sacrifice. Coming from me, it's a gift.

The world knows nothing of you. That is my gift to you. You are no one.

The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence.

She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

America when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes?