Quotes About Revelation

you have blown a large breach in the walls of my existence.

The orthodoxy runs, that if a marriage is founded on less than perfect truth it will always come to light. I don't believe that. Marriage moves you further away from the examination of truth, not nearer to it.

finding another woman can bring an exceptional clarity of mind to a man all of a sudden.

What he didn't – or couldn't – tell Joan was his terrifying discovery that love, by some ruthless, almost chemical process, could resolve itself into pity and anger.

For the first time in as long as he can remember, El Capitan is proud of his brother. Damn it, Helmud! Shit! You've been planning to kill me!

I didn't know it until the end. All stories worth telling are love stories.

The box we stored God i kept getting smaller...until only a speck of god still exists, maybe only an atom. Maybe an atom is all we need.

Maybe Helmund is an angel after all. Maybe that's who he's been all along.

All this time, you've been lying to me!

What uif God and the truth are the same thing? What if the truth is at the center of everything? If you believe in that, you believe that the truth will win out in the end. It will reveal itself...

Good God. He doesn't know me at *all*. How crushing. How illuminating. How ... potentially very useful.

Ah, Lyon: the Achilles' heel of this family. She had forgotten about Lyon, and about disappearing Redmonds.

When she pulled it out, something tum- bled out along with it: a soft copper lock of her own hair. She went blank for a moment, thrown oddly off bal ance. The things lined up neatly on the floor in front of her were like words to a sentence in a language she had only begun learning, a sentence punctuated poignantly by a copper curl. They told a story Rebecca sensed she already half knew, she could feel it radiating, increasing in light, on the far reaches of her awareness.

they were coming into focus to each other. As though each of them was a sun, burning away each other's obscuring mists.

In his presence, unanticipated corners of her character seemed to be unfolding like a secret letter written long ago.

I don't sleep. All night long I'm wide awake, thinking, Secrets, secrets, secrets. There are secrets in my past no one needs to know. Secrets in my present that might kill Kim and Chip. I don't want to take my secrets with me when I go. When I pass through the light, i want to be free of everything and everyone.

The little boy leaned against his father's chest and slowly nodded. Yes, he said. I heard all of the names, but I don't remember the other two… just the man who hurt Gillian. That's the name I most want, Brodick said softly. Who is he, Alec? Alec, please, Gillian began. Tell me, Alec. Who is he? Baron, Alec whispered. His name is Baron.

Do you honestly believe I would have instructed the man to pay attention to what I was saying if I'd known all the while that he is the King of Scotland?

She drooled on his neck. The groom didn't find out her true age until the barrister began the reading of the conditions for their union. His bride was four years old.

And as if she had opened a hidden door, I felt the patterned surface break and give way, and the words let me in. I still loved opening a book and feeling like I was physically entering the page, the ordinary world fizzing and blurring around the edges until it disappeared.

In the old tales, when people undertake quests, they find themselves fighting dragons or serpents or giant dogs. Or maybe a dark warrior of some kind, folk who are enemies from the start. But it's far more frightening when someone seems friendly and good, and turns out to be different altogether. The odd and uncanny are not terrifying in themselves. The most disturbing thing is the ordinary turned strange. Things familiar and safe becoming not right.

son. This was a revelation. The more she considered

The sun never knew how wonderful it was," the architect Louis Kahn said, "until it fell on the wall of a building

A dream only becomes one when you wake up.