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Quotes About Sanctuary

He knew he had to have harmony in his home at all times. He had to have a sanctuary where, no matter the horrors he saw, the things he had to do in order to bring justice to those who would harm others, he could find his peace.
~ Christine Feehan
This bright place isn't really a sanctuary. For, ambushed among its bottles and cartons and cans, are shockingly vivid memories of meals shopped for, cooked, eaten with Jim. They stab out at George as he passes, pushing his shopping cart. Should we ever feel truly lonely if we never ate alone?
~ Christopher Isherwood
What are you working on? Elizabeth asked. Nate could hear her tapping a pencil on her desk. She took notes during their conversations. He didn't know what she did with the notes, but it bothered him. I have a lecture at the sanctuary in four days. Why, why had he told her? Why? Now she'd rattle down the mountain in her ancient Mercedes that looked like a Nazi staff car, sit in the audience, and ask all the questions that she knew in advance he couldn't answer.
~ Christopher Moore
My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts.
~ Christopher Paolini
My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.
~ Christopher Paolini
A person's mind is his last sanctuary. - Brom
~ Christopher Paolini
My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I have learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe within my innermost thoughts.
~ Christopher Paolini
The soul falls into contemplation before this sanctuary, where the celebration of love is held.
~ Victor Hugo
Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel with his finger on his lips. The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the celebration of love takes place.
~ Victor Hugo
Kitapl?k kurmak, tap?nak yapmak kadar kutsald?r.
~ Victor Hugo
For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place
~ Kristin Hannah
Books, wherever they were in the world, always felt like home to her.
~ Kristin Harmel
Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mouth is the chief and foremost of these channels which lead the soul out of its invisible sanctuary; it is by speech that man communicates the secret converse which is his real life.
~ lacordaire henri dominique
they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.
~ Laini Taylor
And there would be a door to shut out the world, and places to put things that would be theirs.
~ Laini Taylor
All nature is the temple; earth the altar.
~ lamartine alphonse de ii
Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
~ Lance Morrow
He wants her in his bedroom. And not in that way — no girl has ever been in his bedroom that way. It is his private space, his sanctuary. But he wants Clary there. He wants her to see him, the reality of him, not the image he shows the world. He wants to lie down on the bed with her and have her curl into him. He wants to hold her as she breathes softly through the night; to see her as no one else sees her: vulnerable and asleep. To see her and to be seen.
~ Cassandra Clare
Lovely,wonderful Isabelle.Could you please go away?Now is a really bad time." Isabelle looked from Magnus to her brother,and back again. "Then,you dont want me to tell you that Camille's just escaped from the Sanctuary and my mother is demanding that you come back to the Institute right now to help them find her?" "No,"Magnus said."I dont want you to tell me that" "Well,to bad"Isabelle said"Because it's true .I mean,I guess you dont have to go,but-
~ Cassandra Clare
It was one of those nights that's a really good time to have four walls and a door to close.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Come forward. Come in from the summer heat and the flies. Come in from that assault on all senses, that pummelling of rod and cone and drum and cilia. Come in from the great spotlight of the sun, sweeping across the white sands, making everyone, and therefore no one, a star. Come inside and meet the prologue.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I've learned that home isn't a place, it's a feeling.
~ Cecelia Ahern
His discussion of "the humanity of the ancients" is illuminating (Z 441), especially when he speaks with admiration and nostalgia about the right of exile according to which everyone is guaranteed sanctuary at the hearth of every temple or private home; and the respect for wanderers, enemies, the elderly, the dead—that is, for the most fragile casualties of the human condition.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary's shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin