He tries to force the anger down, but it’s like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.
If someone’s different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that’s God telling you to take a closer look. If you’re scared or mad, that’s about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.
And I think if you’re going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.
You have to be mad in the language you’re mad in.
I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.
Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.
Like I said before, Rudy says, it’s all about differences. Something about humans really doesn’t like them, when they are the very thing we should embrace. If someone’s different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that’s God telling you to take a closer look. If you’re scared or mad, that’s about you, not about the person who scares or angers you.
Sometimes I wish I could have religion their way. You know, no responsibilities in life but to cut down people who don’t think the way you do.
I figure if those things were in God’s jurisdiction, he’d do something different about them. But they aren’t. Those are in our jurisdiction.
The World is full of fools and crackpots – people who were never given tools to fill their lives up with, and consequently have made their lives so meaningless the only way they can feel good about themselves is to look around and see who they’re better than. When they can’t find someone, they create someone. Their ideas are meaningless- right up until we start to fight against them. We’re the ones who give power to the bigots. We make their ideas real by opposing them.
The first time I heard the saying ‘Live every day like you are going to live forever and every day like is your last.’ I thought it was one of those unsolvable story problems from my fifth grade arithmetic books, but it turned out to be the truest thing about my year.
If humans are ever to understand one another, they will have to come to terms with the concept, and the reality, of relativity. In essence, that’s what the Earthgame is about. They will have to see how things look compared to other things. Once you understand that nothing exists without its opposite, you understand nothing is good and nothing is evil, that opposites actually hold each other up.
It wasn’t a very Christian thing to do, that’s all.
Man with Brain the Size of Tic Tac Mates with Amoeba Couple gives birth to giant adjusto; names him Dale.
Darlin’,” he says, draining his coffee cup, “I can come up with solutions all day long and you can come up with reasons. Either you take control or all you’ve got left is reasons.
He goes for people’s open wounds, then brings God in with air support. You have to agree, there’s a certain cowardice to that approach.
Of all my dysfunctional behaviors, she hates me putting empty containers back where they don’t belong. “I don’t care if you weigh seven hundred pounds the rest of your life and don’t stop picking your nose till you’re forty,” she told me once, “but if you put one more empty container anywhere but in the garbage, I’ll have you put to sleep.
What I hope we can learn is to be aware of how our beliefs color what we see.” I wanted to tell Brittain that Lemry was trying.
Taking on someone else’s monsters will kill you.” He.
Then he said if I ever want to see how something works, just look at it broken.
My dad leaves bruises on the inside.