#th

Faith doesn't have to be much. Not any bigger than a mustard seed... That small. Only that much faith you'll need in me, God says, because I am so big. I am the Great I Am. So have faith in me. ↗

— Patricia Raybon

#change

In that time while he was still aware, which was the worse, I wonder: the agony of his physical torture or the horror of their utter hatred, of their moral certainty that he was so beyond the bounds of what they could accept that he deserved not just a death but one of such brutality, such inhumanity, as would make the seraphs who burned Sodom bow their heads in cold respect? What is it like, I wonder, to learn the full capacity of hatred in a lesson hammered home with bone broken on wood and skin ripped on barbed wire? ↗

— Hal Duncan

#hatred #inhumanity #death

Anyone who had died young after a happy childhood had won a great victory, since he would be forever spared the discovery of what sort of place the world really is. Others must look forward to death by defeat - their bodies gone, their world destroyed. ↗

— Carlos Baker

#death

The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#misery #death

The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#death #james-bond #death

Kawasumi-kun is holding tighter than I am. ↗

— Morishita Suu

#love #together #love

Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#michael-ondaatje #novels #romance #the-english-patient #change

Gratitude doesn't change the scenery.  It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#colors #gratefulness #gratitude #richelle #richelle-goodrich

My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code. ↗

— Frank Black

#code #going #how #know #might

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#before #came #into #minimalism #moved