Quotes About Revelation

I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?

What's happened to you, Daniel?" she asked, seeming more annoyed than curious. "I became a Christian," he said, "a follower of Jesus," and as soon as the words left his mouth, his head became clearer.

Every story has another story inside, but you don't usually get to read the inside one. It's deleted or torn up or maybe filed away before the story becomes a book ...

Truth loves the light...It never stays buried forever.

But you do choose not to reveal all the facts, which the way I see it is another form of lying." She sipped her wine.

Go on rummaging, brushing off dust, though you may find later that it was the dust you wanted.

I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps.

Don't want to reach for me, do you? I mean nothing to you, the little things give you away

A body of work may be reviled -- mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings -- and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

Whether we liked it or not we were involuntary witnesses to every man's behaviour, to the way he walked, the way he ate, the way he slept, the way he washed, the way he put on his clothes. No one could hide anything from anybody.

The secret is that there is no secret.

I can only assume that he discovered what I never wish to. That there is no barrier.

The secret is there is no secret. That is what we really wish to keep from our kids, and its suppression is the true collusion of adulthood, the pact we make, the Talmud we protect.

To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so - as if she had been gradually getting to know him for over nine years and then, bang, he was known.

La idea es conseguir que quien compra tu libro se sienta un poco menos infeliz porque ahora sabe que es un infeliz, a diferencia de todos los demás, que son tan infelices que ni siquiera saben que lo son.

Slapping his shoulder was probably a mistake; he flinched. And for the briefest of moments I appreciated what little access we ever had to what really went on in Kevin's head, since for a second the mask fell, and his face curdled with - well, with revulsion, I'm afraid. To allow even so brief a glimpse of its workings, he must have had other things on his mind.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.

You knew I would, didn't you?' She smiles sadly. 'Oh, I don't know, I suppose it occurred to me. I would have said something. Soon. I was on the verge. It just didn't seem like first-date kind of fodder.' 'No,' he says softly. 'I get that.' She turns the mug round and round, not sure where to head next with this development.

in the context of a school trip it was as though they'd all just been released from a sensory-deprivation capsule.

I feel – Jesus. I feel like I don't know you, Rachel. I feel like I married a fucking stranger.