#provoking

Shattered by the cumulative effect of so much horror and death, Joan was again afflicted by a crisis of faith. How could a good and benevolent God let such a thing happen? How could He so terribly afflict even children and babies, who were not guilty of any sin? ↗

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

#thought-provoking #death

If you always do what you've done before, you will always get what you had, not more... ↗

— Shelley K. Wall

#inspirational

The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer. ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#thought-provoking #art

But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#thought-provoking

It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned. ↗

— Susane Colasanti

#thought-provoking

Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble. ↗

— Carolee Dean

#people #thought-provoking #words #thought-provoking

When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#thought-provoking

In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king ↗

— Michael Grant

#thought-provoking

I missed the future. ↗

— John Green

#thought-provoking

Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse. Charlene Austin ↗

— Vicki M. Taylor

#hard-hitting #mystery-suspense #teen-alcohol-and-drug-abuse #thought-provoking #thought-provoking