Quotes about Reflection

But I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone - he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling.

No amount of fre or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

He left feeling that if he had searched harder, he might have found her — that he was leaving her behind.

What are you looking at? I was just thinking that you're going to be rather happy. Nicole was frightened: Am I? All right--things couldn't be worse than they have been.

Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty cynical about everything.

Can't repeat the past? why of course you can!

There is a fundamental syntactical distinction between saying "we question the Bible" and "the Bible questions us.

Life's darker side: that's Advent.

But at the same time, even as the season outside gets more exuberantly festive, those who observe Advent within the Christian community are convicted more and more each year by the truth of what is going on inside—inside the church as she refuses cheap comfort and sentimental good cheer. Advent begins in the dark.

At 26 or 27, I was fatter than anyone.

See failures as learning experiences, not character faults.