Quotes About Revelation

You must always remember to check beneath the layers of things to find the truth.

The epiphany was simply tucked away for consideration after we were back on campus. Sometimes a revelation comes with a flash of heavenly light and a booming voice - and sometimes it is jotted in a sun-bleached spiral notebook.

when there was a third rap.

Stop fussing, honey. It won't be the first time James has seen a man's stomach. It's not the first time I've seen that one, thought James.

from around his neck started to undo the buttons on the front of his

And then he realized—it had to be Tom Bradshaw's father.

The zipper opened all the way down our spines.

There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.

Great discoveries, whether of silk or gravity, are always windfalls. They happen to people loafing under trees.

At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for the first time.

But then she came closer and we saw the light in her eyes we have been looking for ever since.

Up until recently, Milton thought of Tessie as his prim cousin. Whenever one of his friends expressed interest in her, Milton told them to give up the idea. That's honey from the icebox, he said, As Artie Shaw might have. Cold sweets don't spread.

The thing was, Mitchell now knew what Merton meant, or thought he did. As he took in the marvelous sights, the dusty Polo grounds, the holy cows with their painted horns, he got into the habit of walking around Calcutta in the presence of God. Furthermore, it seemed to Mitchell that this didn't have to be a difficult thing. It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full conversation with the world. Somehow you forgot about is as you grew up, and had to learn it again.

We had never known her. They brought us here to find that out.

Hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.

Néha észre se vesszük, ami majd kiböki a szemünket.

I remember the first time we took off our clothes in front of each other. It was like unwinding bandages. I was as much of a man as Olivia could bear at that point. I was her starter kit.

So that was our love affair. Wordless, blinkered, a nighttime thing, a dream thing. There were reasons on my side for this as well. Whatever it was that I was was best revealed slowly, in flattering light. Which meant not much light at all. Besides, that's the way it goes in adolescence. You try things out in the dark. You get drunk or stoned and extemporize.

but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.

Personal ignorance should be admitted, but it should not be allowed to place limits and bounds on the ways 'and means of revelation.

worry that younger women are striving so hard to present a compelling story via images that they're ignoring the substance that makes the story true. Ultimately, they're going to end up really bitter later in life (and not the good kind of bitter that sells books). My message to these women is this—if you want to avoid regrets later, give yourselves a break now and just be real. Enjoy the mess. Revel in the imperfection.

Nadine placed one map on top of the other and held them to the dining room light. The points were a near-perfect match. The map of Sarasota, Desoto and Manatee Counties was larger than the one of Marion, Volusia and Lake, but her mind made the readjustment. She finally understood why the unsub used Myakka and why he dropped the bodies in Phillippi Creek: because the kill and dump sites now aligned perfectly with her mother's.

The small hairs on her arms and neck lifted as she stared at the blank spot on her map, where the kill site of her classmate showed through from beneath. They recovered Sandra and Mr. White's bodies where she had held them captive for days. There was no body dump because the police arrested Arleen before she could move her final victims. And just like that, she knew where they'd be. With that information came the possibility that she could save them.