- A blow, expected, repeated, falling on a bruise, with no smart or shock of surprise, only a dull and sickening pain and the doubt whether another like it could be borne - that was how it felt.
- Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
- There is nothing so inhuman as the mask of the good servant.
- At last my excitement as I played - and I did nothing else from morning to night - rose to such a degree that I couldn’t sit still for a moment; I kept pacing up and down as I thought about the games, faster and faster and faster I paced, becoming more and more heated the closer the end of the game came; my desire to win, to triumph, to defeat myself gradually became a kind of rage, and I was trembling with impatience, for one of my chess selves was always too slow for the other.
- Research also points to developmental effects: young adults who moved geographically as children make less of a distinction between friends and strangers; greater residential mobility and more relational freedom (i.e., fewer constraints on new relationships) lead individuals to form larger social networks, favor new experiences, prefer novelty, and perhaps even think more creatively.
- London is one of the moral cores of the universe.
- Flirt, muse, model, sister, saint, whore, lover - it’s hard to tell exactly which, where Kirchner is concerned.
- This relentless idea of a broad butcher knife plunging into my sides, at great speed and with mechanical regularity, cutting off these wafer-thin slices, which, due to the speed of the work, fly away in rolled-up form.
- Coke Stevenson was the living personification in of frontier individualism, the very embodiment of the myth of the cowboy, a myth that still, today, reverberates through American culture with astonishing power.
- And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character and character produces hope and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s Love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.