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Quotes About Revelation

kimse taraf?ndan rahats?z edilmeden oturabilece?im kö?eler, bo? koridorlar arad?m. Küçücük dünyam daha da küçülmü?, zemindeki çatlaklara, duvarlardaki sarmal kabartmalara kadar daralm??t?. Parma??m?n ucunu üzerlerinde gezdirirken çatlaklar ve kabartmalar hafif f?s?lt?larla konu?uyordu.
~ Madeline Miller
I want to shatter the cold mask of stone that has slipped down over the boy I knew.
~ Madeline Miller
Esa fue mi primera lección: bajo la apariencia plácida y familiar de las cosas, hay otra cara que aguarda el momento de romper el mundo en pedazos
~ Madeline Miller
bajo la apariencia plácida y familiar de las cosas, hay otra cara que aguarda el momento de romper el mundo en pedazos.
~ Madeline Miller
How many times would I have to learn? Every moment of my peace was a lie, for it came only at the gods' pleasure.
~ Madeline Miller
All my defences are shredded, ripped away, exposing me. I'm sure he can see right down into my core, because I'm seeing into the very heart of him, and I'm petrified by what I find there.
~ Unknown
You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.
~ Mae West
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
~ Mae West
As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way…We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stones and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered.
~ Unknown
Every day you awaken, the day before you is a mystery, that is the mystery of life -Maggie Bayliss
~ Unknown
58. "Love is something so ugly that the human race would die out if lovers could see what they were doing" (Leonardo da Vinci).
~ Maggie Nelson
Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment.
~ Maggie Nelson
I think beauty neither obscures truth nor reveals it. Likewise, it leads neither toward justice nor away from it.
~ Maggie Nelson
I do not know the reason for this blue pussy, meant to convey both divine bewilderment and revelation. But I do feel that its color is right. For blue has no mind. It is not wise, nor does it promise any wisdom. It is beautiful, and despite what the poets and philosophers and theologians have said, I think beauty neither obscures truth nor reveals it. Likewise, it leads neither towards justice nor away from it. It is pharmakon. It radiates.
~ Maggie Nelson
Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. A red part
~ Maggie Nelson
She then leans over and thrusts the edge of the letter into the sconce burning on the wall of the stairwell. For a second or two, it seems the flame cannot believe its luck, refusing to consume the page. Then it comes to its senses, asserting its grasp, turning the edges of the paper black, shrivelling and devouring them.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
and she can feel him switch from one character to another; she can sense that other, big-house, self melt off him, like wax sliding from a lit candle, revealing the man within.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Az ötedeki patikada büyük bir kayan?n ard?ndan bir adam ç?k?veriyor.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
My wife who, just a moment ago, was a dark, forbidding figure with a gun, a long gray coat, and a hat like Death's hood, she has shucked off the sou'wester and transmogrified back to her usual incarnation.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
a girl comes to crouch in front of me and I see that she is unlacing my shoes and taking them off and I say to her, I took it, I took it, and I've never told anyone. The girl looks up at me and she titters. You tell us every day, she says. I know she is lying so I say, it was my sister's, you know. And she just turns to speak to someone over her shoulder and—
~ Maggie O'Farrell
And she looked up at me and it was as if she was waking from sleep. She stretched. She actually stretched and she said, hello, Kit. And then she must have seen that I was on the verge of tears because her face fell and she said, what is it? And I said, you. You are ruining my chances. And, you know, she said, chances of what? And I realised that if I were to successfully—
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?
~ Maggie Shayne
It's you Tempest I told her. Not her. It's been you all along. I'm sorry it took me so long to tell you.... I made her trust me to save you.
~ Maggie Shayne
God, Brigham. You never told me you were a goddamn goddess.
~ Maggie Shayne