Ed Martin Quotes
Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.
Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them and they go to rust.
It’s true: A slice of pound cake does wonders to thaw the coldest of days.
Heartache is my constant companion, and we’re perfect for one another. Two co-dependent peas in a pod. My past and my future.
I AM A FATHERLESS FATHER FOR MINE IS GONE, HIS DEATH A MYSTERY, HE IS HISTORY, AND THAT IS WHY I LOOK ONLY UPON YOU FOR YOUR JUST GUIDANCE MY FAITHFUL GOD.
Life is a series of deaths and resurrections, losses and gains, pain and joy.
To my beloved friends, there’s simply no life without you guys. Thanks for the advice and the love and the billion dinners and laughs. Without you all . . . I’d look for new friends and get them.
old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.
Our enemies leave our bodies for the crows and the wolves. Our friends bury us in secret graves.
Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust myself, and I trust my mules. I won't fall.
She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands.'You're being very silent.''That's how men cry.
Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.
It's time to calculate your risks make amends to reduce errors and increase your successes
From time to time, we must seek a resting point from which we can again be aware of the beauty of the world.
Where magic is the essence of existence and those who wield it, rarely what they seem
I follow Jesus not because I don't have any doubts. I follow Jesus because in my doubt, He has always been tender with me.
It is impossible to experience a person’s life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.
Your outer world mirrors your inner world. How you view your outer world is how you view you, your inner world, the 'you' that needs your care, your attention, your compassion and your love.
You'll be ready for this change - when you're ready – not a moment before. Don't beat yourself up if you're not ready.
And it was then that I realized that families might be the ones who pick us up time and again but strangers also rescue us-even if they don't know they're doing so.
If we all do one random act of kindness daily, we just might set the world in the right direction.
Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and split it into pieces, leaving a bit behind wherever she went, never to be whole again.
In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.
There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.
Oh yes, it hurts at times to be alone among the stars. But it hurts a lot more to be alone at a party. A lot more.
To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who created All
I became an actor because it was my clumsy attempt to become myself.
(M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.
I know much less about why God allows people to suffer than I know that He Himself is a suffering God.
It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.
I canna let you die like Da, ” he said softly. “And yet ye canna let me live, ” she replied.
Miss Green can call a turd a rose if she wants, but that don't mean people's going to be lining up to smell it.