Quotes About Revelation

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

I struggled to sit up, feeling stiff, but rested. "Where?" "Ted's house." I sat up straighter. Ted's house? Edward's house. I was finally going to get to see where Edward lived. I was going to snoop and strip some of his mystery away. If I didn't get killed, finding out Edward's secrets would make the entire trip worthwhile. If I did get killed, I'd come back and haunt Edward, see if I could make him see ghosts after all.

I knew you were powerful, ruthless, and pretty, but that you have a mind and a heart besides is going to take some getting used to." "Does everyone pretty much think I'm just a sociopath who happens to have magical abilities?" "It's all you let people see," he said, "until now.

She tasted like sunshine. And until this second I didn't know that sunshine tasted like anything.

If one thing is a secret, everything is

We were supposed to weather the storms together, but we couldn't…You're not who I thought you were.

And I haven't even told you the best part. "He's British.

Natalya's nearly naked backside. "I

I said this with the exuberance of telling an infertile couple that they were having twins.

looking about as pleased as if I'd just announced that I had tested positive for syphilis.

There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let a penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, -- or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him.

Well it was one of those days Larger than life When your friends came to dinner And they stayed the night And then they cleaned out the refrigerator And ate everything in sight And then they stayed up in the livingroom And cried all night Strange angels Singing just for me Old stories Haunting me This is nothing Like I thought it would be . . . .

Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it. . . . Someone just ripped off my eyelids.

They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.

I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am." She nods her head slowly. "What do you think you'd look like?" "Smaller, for a start.

I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.

The false innocence you render for them by censoring truth protects only you.

I can't let me hear this, but it's too late. The facts sneak in and stab me.

I learned then that words had such power some must never be spoken and was thus robbed of both tongue and the truth.

Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath gets slower and deeper as I peruse the shelves. I believe that books contain messages I am meant to receive. I'm not normally superstitious, but I've even had books fall from shelves and land at my feet. Books are my missives from the universe.

Light had dawned in the utter darkness.

and Vivian eyed something no one else could see. Then

Many of us may not know too much about our characters, but we tell the reader altogether too much.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.