Quotes About Revelation

Truth works a trip wire that permits the book to explode into being.

It was a feminist act, revealing secrets in order to free herself and the women of her clan from the silence and obscurity to which a misogyny thousands of years old would have relegated them.

He said, My granny back in Tennessee was born with the web of a caul over her head like a wedding veil, and I come into this world wearing that same veil. I see what others don't. I am wed to the truth and a missionary of it.

And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it.

The patterns of our lives reveal us. Our habits measure us.

This is to say nothing against afternoons, evenings or even midnight. Each has its portion of the spectacular. But dawn — dawn is a gift. Much is revealed about a person about his or her passion, or indifference, to this opening of the door of day. No one who loves dawn, and is abroad to see it, could be a stranger to me.

I began to pick through the red rivers of confusion; I began to take apart the deep stitches of nightmares.

Imagine lifting the lid from a jar and finding it filled not with darkness but with light.

About God, how could he give up his secrets and still be God?

We did not know she was sick, but she has come to the fence, walking like a woman who is balancing a sword inside of her body.

His heart nearly stopped. A ship was outlined against the sky! Behind it, he saw two smaller ships. As the ships came into view, their bright sails were filled with wind and their serpent prows blazed in the new sunlight.

You know, up until later on today, I never really knew how to drink.

What I still can't hear, after all these years, is the specific tip of the hat Steve hid in a countermelody in the title song: "Hank and Mary get into town tomorrow.

Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!

I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.

It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me.

I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived. I

Unhappy man! Do you share my madness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

mi objetivo. Me sentía como el árabe que enterrado junto a los muertos encontró un pasadizo por el cual volver al mundo, sin más ayuda que una luz mortecina y apenas suficiente. Amigo mío, veo por su interés, y por el asombro y expectativa que reflejan sus ojos, que espera que le comunique el secreto que poseo; mas no puede

She wondered at her previous blindness; it was as if she had closed her eyelids, and then fancied it was night. No fear that she should return to darkness; her heart felt so light, her spirit so clear and animated, that she could only wonder how it was she had missed happiness so long, when it needed only that she should stretch out her hand to take it.

One always got the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to meet a thought or name a picture.