Quotes from Charles Martin

I stood and pulled her up on two feet. "That depends." "On what?" "Whether you're looking at this through my eyes or yours.

Hate is a powerful weapon. But it is powerless when it comes to cutting chains off the human heart.

The only true language in the world is a kiss... When the pleasure is simple and complete... in the offering.

All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need... To be known.

I'm not leaving something for you. I'm leaving something in you.

And I remember that moment, when I knew. That you'd broken loose in me the stuff that only love breaks loose.

No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home.

If that summer taught me anything, it was this: girls need their father. Period. And I couldn't really tell you why other than it's the father who tells them who they are. Until he does, they're just floating in the earth like that tooth. Buried in some trash mound. Waiting to be discovered by somebody with a shovel who won't crack it or crush it. Last

Annie, the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with the heart.

The mountain between us is the one mountain I cannot climb.

The mango was a mirror image of my last few days. Once beautiful, placed on display for all the world to see, it had been ripped from it's perch, thrown to the ground, rolled in manure and squalor, and left to rot. While that might have bruised it and soiled its skin, it didn't' change it's nature or what it freely offered, for once I peeled it back, an inexplicable sweetness was waiting to be discovered and tasted and consumed.

Some are wrestling with painful words spoken over them by someone they love or walking around in chains of their own making.

Music cuts people free." A pause. "It silences the thing that's trying to kill us.

I've been hurt, I imagine we all have, and I think somewhere in that pain we convince ourselves that if we don't open up and love again, we don't have to hurt again.

somebody gets better the more you do it. You might think an old

Sometimes good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

You and I... we never really finished our conversation, but I can tell you this... living with a broken heart is living half dead, and that doesn't mean you're half alive. It means you're half dead. And... that's no way to live.

Hope is not the result of medicine or anything that science has to offer. It is a flower that sprouts and grows when others pour water upon it.

there's a big difference between being judgmental and making a judgment.

Everything in me wanted to go home. To fall on my dad, tell him about Jimmy, and tell him 'I'm sorry.' But there was another part of me that would not let me do that. And that part needed to make something of the mess that was me. To walk home with something more than scars and empty hands. To be something other than a failure. I was caught in the middle of that tug-of-war.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

What can't be forgiven?'" I nodded. "It's words. Words you can't take back

Broken people just need piecing back together.

Music is its own dimension and it reaches people at a level that is beneath their DNA.