The Edge Quotes
Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.
If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.
I’m starting to get used to this feeling of not caring about anything.
One day, she’d find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.
When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?
I’m not a follower. I never have been. But I’ll definitely become someone I’m not for a few hours if it’ll make me blend in rather than make me a blatant eye sore and draw attention.
Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.
I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.
Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.
I don’t believe in happy endings, ” Flynn said, spinning Tess and tilting up her chin. “Just happy beginnings.
What a tragedy it would be if you lived your entire life without discovering who you are, without reaching your full potential.” Ray Mancini
Don't get so focused on where you're going that you forget the people you're travelling with. There's no point reaching a destination if you arrive alone.
Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish gamble!
He couldn't be more than forty-five, but Murray Miles was stooped, old before his time. The mountains of Alberta had the ability to bend those who lived here.That, or it broke them.
. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.
I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows.
Courage, ” he said, “is being absolutely terrified of something and doing it anyway.
Love was more than a choice, more than a feeling, it was a commitment.
He didn't want to take advantage of her? Fine, she'd take advantage of him.
Gunfire cracked around them. “Just warning shots, ” he yelled. “How do you know?” “We’re not dead.
Look.” He stepped closer, his voice lowered to a gruff murmur, and lifted her chin with his finger, forcing her to meet his gaze – which just made her want to stretch up and kiss him.
Some presters might tell you never to question, but that is tantamount to telling you not to think. Odun created us to explore, to experience. There is no harm in asking questions…
Not every problem can be solved by you trying to get yourself killed.
Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.
The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems.
2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to develop any friendship...whether with a loved one or with God Himself.
A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.
The Advanced Level is Mastery of the Basics
The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything’s on its head, it’s a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction…
I'm being fair, it was the best kiss of my life- a kiss that finds all your seams and pulls them apart, stitch by detail stitch.
When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.
I don’t know what I did to deserve someone as smart and beautiful as you.”"You were you. And maybe that was enough.
Where your attention goes, your time goes
Keep your focus laser-locked on what you want to create in your life.
Husbands and wives need to return regularly to the kinds of romantic activities that drew them together in the first place.
He laughed, a big, open-mouthed laugh that made her think of words beginning with the letter O.
His face spreads into a warm smile. “As a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars – are you gettin’ all romantic on me, Camryn Bennett?” He looks at me with a playful sideward stare.
Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.
They had nothing in common except for existing in the same time and space
The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel.”“Awesome.”“Maybe, but it’s code’s all it is.
It's going to happen whether you like it or not, ” he said quietly.The top of the book dropped to display Susan's wrinkled gaze. “What's that?”“Change, ” Rich said. “It's inevitable.
