The Wanted Quotes
True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness.
She's pretty in a familiar kind of way that I forget to notice, until someone else notices and I'm reminded.
Reacher prowled the hallway, his gun stiff-armed way out in front of him, his torso jerking violently left and right from the hips, like a crazy disco dance. The house-storming shuffle.
The ministry of bearing with one another is more than simply tolerating difficult people. It is also learning to hear God speak through them.
Write down 10 things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it.
The longings of the human heart are changeable and elusive. The good fortune we enjoy today may not be appreciated until it has been taken away and we have to fight and try to get it back (p.132)
Of all this world's beauty and miracles, brilliance and simplicity-of all nature's graces-children are truly the most remarkable.
I don't get it, guys, I continued. I'd want to date me. Why is it so hard for me? I'm wicked fun, I dress nicely, I'm friendly... I'd love to date me. Wouldn't you?
Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.
Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you wanna do with your life
Velva’s face glowed in the streetlight. “Sir Sun, don’t you see? I am your violent violet. And you are mine.
I have a present for you.” He raised his eye brows. “I don’t like your surprises.” “You’ll like this one. Close your eyes.
Be dangerous, darling, for the whole world rises and falls at your feet.
He stood at the entrance to the kitchen, blocking my path to the front door like the Berlin Wall. -- Least Wanted
Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow
Outwardly I was all confidence and openness
I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond
He was the kind of man who turned heads. And he was all hers.
I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself
Perhaps that's what she caught, not Life Fatigue but just grief over a broken heart--and the bitterness that comes with being cheated too early of something true--like a young husband's love.
Forgiveness is…an archaic perception of personal debt and guilt designed by the ego to trap us unendingly within itself.
Discernment is trust put into practice.
Trust allows. Not trusting obstructs.
A belief is an absolute but arbitrary mental stance.
You are the only one who knows what you are actively doing to avoid being what you want to be.
Matthew had called her harmless. Harmless. And being with him made Frankie feel squashed into a box - a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive)
