Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the...
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Stephen King
Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.
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C.J. Sansom
Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again...
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C.J. Sansom
Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization.
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Suzy Kassem
That’s what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.
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Shannon Mullen
More Quotes By Shannon Mullen
Is there such a thing as being too happy?
Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.
As I accept the flowers, I release my grip on the balloons, and they bounce gently against the ceiling the way they did before–hovering, annoyed, frustrated, contained by the ceiling and disappointed by the limits of life.
I guess all the time I spend on social media has made me believe that love exists above the surface, that it’s supposed to be light all of the time.
The intensity of my grief hits the mountains across Eclipse Sound, and then echoes throughout Arctic. There’s nobody around. I can barely see the town below the hill, nestled within the valley of barren tundra, across from the tiny airport, my only access to the...
