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Quotes About Revelation

Así como es necesaria la presión para hacer estallar la pólvora, así el infortunio es necesario también para descubrir ciertas minas misteriosas ocultas en la inteligencia humana.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Et tout cela, mon Dieu! parce que mon cÅ"ur, que je croyais mort, n'était qu'engourdi; parce qu'il s'est réveillé, parce qu'il a battu, parce que j'ai cédé à la douleur de ce battement soulevé du fond de ma poitrine par la voix d'une femme!
~ Alexandre Dumas
The stranger often learns important truths in the home of his host that the latter would perhaps conceal from a friend; with a stranger one is relieved of obligatory silence; one does not fear his indiscretion because he is passing through.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Christ Almighty! To see yourself... face to face.,. The clothes were on fire. Did you see that? What in God's name was it?' 'It was Gully Foyle,' Robin said, 'burning in hell.
~ Alfred Bester
I can't forget what it's done to you. I've been thinking of nothing else since it happened. It's gone forever, that funny young, lost look I loved won't ever come back. I killed that when I told you about Rebecca. It's gone. In a few hours, you've grown so much older.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
~ Alice Hoffman
Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.
~ Alice Hoffman
people can surprise you in so many ways, both with cruelty and with kindness.
~ Alice Hoffman
That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness.
~ Alice Hoffman
Listen, and you'll hear a story being told, one you may need to know.
~ Alice Hoffman
I knew that men told you the truth for one of two reasons: when they wished to be rid of what they couldn't bear to carry, or when they wished to include you in what they knew so their stories wouldn't be lost.
~ Alice Hoffman
Franny whispered to Haylin all that she ever was and had been. She told him that she had always known what the future would be, and he said that if what she said was true, then she should have known a very long time ago that this was meant to be.
~ Alice Hoffman
If anything, love was like light, illuminating what no one would have ever guessed was there in the darkness.
~ Alice Hoffman
You know what love is?...It's what you least expect.
~ Alice Hoffman
In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.
~ Alice Hoffman
Even when you kept your eyes wide open, the world would surprise you.
~ Alice Hoffman
Honesty was like a stone, dropped and irretrievable once it was spoken aloud
~ Alice Hoffman
You think you know somebody, but what do you know? Only what they want to show you. Remember, it's what's inside that matters.
~ Alice Hoffman
What he was doing was actually a hundred times worse. He was telling her that he loved her, something he hadn't mentioned and may not have even known when they were married. She used to whisper it to him sometimes, while he was fucking her, and he had to turn off his mind every time she did that. For some reason that declaration had seemed like a curse to him back then; he couldn't even hear it spoken aloud
~ Alice Hoffman
Sometimes you think you know what's going to happen next, and then the world surprises you
~ Alice Hoffman
You know what love is? Maureen said to me that day...it's what you least expect.
~ Alice Hoffman
Was it possible to know anyone, truly?
~ Alice Hoffman
Oh, how Vincent wished he could tell his sisters how unexpected everything was. He wished they could sit down at the table, today, in the sunlight, so that he could tell them everything. Once, a long time ago, before we knew who we were, we thought we wanted to be like everyone else. How lucky to be exactly who we were.
~ Alice Hoffman
How can he do this to you?" Shelby says of her father. "I don't care, I have you," Sue says. Shelby says nothing. The fact that she's the high point of someone's life is pathetic. She's probably never loved her mother more than she does at this moment. Maybe she didn't even know what love was before today.
~ Alice Hoffman