"A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?"
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"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."
"Rafael?””Yeah?”„Do we all have monsters?”„Yes.”„Why does God give us so many monsters?”„You want to know my theory?”„Sure.”„I think it’s other people who give us monsters. Maybe God doesn’t have anything to do with it."
"Extend your "best before"date by living a youthful life."
"His shelf. Good. Noodle dust. Decaying brain collecting dust. Must insert it back in skull—what was I thinking?"
"It’s 4:00 in the afternoon and I’m just now putting on clothes. The life of a writer is as free as the pizza I just had delivered is not."
"Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood Hill. This time what I saw up there was even worse: two bulls. And not just regular bulls - bronze ones the size of elephants. And even that wasn't bad enough. Naturally they had to breathe fire, too."
"I feel…and I have reason to believe…that we could come to mean something to each other."
"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."
"We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way."
"Will this be in the examination, Mr Hecker?"was the limit of my students' interest in any given subject. If it was going to be in the test they took notes, if it was not going to be in the test they did not take notes. Their silent, depthless stares were unnerving. I told myself that they were not stupid - for how could the final attainment of thousands of years of human progress be stupid?"
"I loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does."
"Why can you see the stars at night, but not the light..."
"If you wish to transform, pretend this day until it is so."
"Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth."
"Lightning doesn’t thunder twice. Let that be a lesson in love."
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
"If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed."
"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
"This is Sailor Supergirl,” George says. “She knows all about black holes."
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