Quotes About Revelation

There was something different about his face. It was not quite smiling, but the disciplined austerity had somehow gone from it. It was as though he had allowed some of himself to come out from that place deep within where he had hidden most of his life.

She had never suspected . . . that there could be such passion, such intense and shattering joy.

She was suddenly plagued by a thoroughly novel desire to rush across to where he still sat in his chair, and cradle his head against her breast. She had never seen him vulnerable, had never even dreamed that he had any weakness.

He doubtless thought I had you in the bushes ravishing you. Well, she said, you must admit that you had something not too far distant from that on your mind. A kiss? he said. Similar to ravishment? You malign me. I was about to kiss you, Diana, in the tradition of true romance.

She had been dazed, astounded by the discovery that she, too, had loved for some time without realizing it.

I had forgot that you have discovered my darkest secret—that I am a gentleman at heart.

It had always seemed unfair to him that Web had confided his love for her when she was fifteen before he had thought to confide his own.

Can't you see? Have you been blind all these years? Haven't you known that it has always been you? Always?

When people live in denial of the truth—sometimes large groups of them all together—they lose their . . . I am not sure of the right word. They lose something precious, something good and right and true. Their integrity, perhaps? You forced everyone to confront the truth—even those who did not know it before

It is sometimes too delicious to hear evil of a person one has despised for many years.

I don't know, Jack. I only know that I love you. And were prepared to pour out all that love in one single night with me? Yes. And don't, please, ask me why. I don't know why. And I did not even know that I would be willing to do something so rash until it happened. And I did not know that I love you until tonight.

If he ever grew to understand himself, Hugo decided, it would be a miracle of the first order. Not

Ah, don't lie to me, he said. Believe me, I want to understand, I want to forgive. When I see you and when I hold you, I cannot believe that you are capable of the villainy that I have accepted all these years. I want you, Elizabeth.

But that was the second version, she reminded him. In the first one you had died and gone to heaven and found it was a brothel..

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. —Ice Cube

Celestina Giuliani learned the word slander at her cousin's baptism.

Maybe poetry is the only way we can get near the truth of God.… And when the metaphors fail, we think it's God who's failed us!

She taught them that every soul is a small reflection of God, and that it is wicked to murder because when a life is taken, we lose that unique revelation of God's nature.

Jesus Christ, Jimmy breathed, meeting the future by turning to the ancient past.

But who will I say you are? How will I explain you? People don't just appear out of nowhere. Lord A'mighty, Andrew exclaimed. Have you no brains? We're as alike as two peas in a pod. All we need to do is switch places.

Mary Gaitskill

Keegi ei ole nii pime kui see, kes ei taha näha.

But most of the time, we keep memories packed away. I sometimes liken that moment of sudden unpacking to circus clowns pouring out of a miniature car trunk—how did so much fit into such a small space?

If you let yourself tell those smaller anecdotes or stories, the overarching capital-S Story will eventually rise into view.