Odd Thomas Quotes
Odd Thomas Quote of the day
...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.
In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.
She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world.
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.
Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings...
In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.
The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.
I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.
I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.
Her exceptional beauty also helps her to keep her secrets. Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty
Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.
To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.
Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.
Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.
When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.
She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.
Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved...
Were you always such a snake, " the child asked, "or did you grow into what you are?
All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.
I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.
Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.
I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.
Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.
Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.
Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.
But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.
Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.
Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty
By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.
Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.
She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.
As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "She never has.
So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: "I guess I'll find out.
And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.
I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.
