"How long will ye...break me in pieces with words?"
--Job, 19:2
"There were times, God knows, when I could see it in her face as well. The
lovers don't always live happily ever after, even when they've done what
seemed right as well as they could do it. So we drifted apart.
A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in
another pair of eyes. And although I did love her, all the kisses,
all the endearments, all the walks arm-in-arm through blowing October leaves... none of those things could quite measure up...
--Christine, Stephen King
"Fear not, nor be discouraged and let not your heart be faint."
--Dead Sea Scrolls, The War Scroll
"For the dwelling-place of the Word is man: and its truth is love."
--Odes of Solomon, 12:11
"The night comes on; It's very calm;
I want to cross over, I want to go home,
But she says, Go back,
Go back to the world.
--The Night Comes On, Leonard Cohen
"I reached down and brushed the hair out of her face. There was blood everywhere. Some of it was hers, but I realize a lot of it is my own. I watched in terror as it poured from my hands. I just held her, my hands on her broken little body and she was healed. I watched her look up at me, as perfect and as whole as if the car had never come by that day. I was scared out of my mind. What had I done? What had just happened?"
--Broken World
"Every man before he dies shall see the devil."
--English Proverb
"Love never calls something its own."
--Gospel of Phillip
"I came, that I should bear witness to the truth;
and every one who is of the truth, heareth my voice.
Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?
Jesus said, Truth is from heaven.
Pilate said, Therefore truth is not on earth."
--Gospel of Nicodemus, the Acts of Pontius Pilate
"I could hear him praying softly from time to time
over the laughter of the soliders. Another hour.
I began to shake. Every sound from the cross was
like a hot iron driven in my spine. I couldn't bring
myself to look up at him."
--Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff,
Christopher Moore
"The first time I saw the man who would save the world
he was sitting near the central well in Nazareth with a
lizard hanging out of his mouth."
--Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christopher Moore
"He was the most beautiful man
I had ever seen
And both my flesh
And my spirit yearned for him.
For I would die for this man's love."
--Magdalene, M. Johnson
"It is very beautiful, is it not? He has been searching for
you for a long time. You see, you are the answer to the
question, the piece of the puzzle. He is nothing without you, as
you are nothing without him. For you are one and the same. He
has travelled the universe looking for you, and now he will find
you. And the magic will draw many to you to experience the
union--the union of souls."
--I Remember Union, Flo Aeveia Magdalena
"The throat of the world is cut. The voice of the desert
has been snuffed out. The world is orphaned."
--Last Temptation Of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis
"A dream is not always a prophecy. The future, like history
and intention and so much else, is open to interpretation. And
hope is always brightest when it dawns from fear."
--Kingdom Come, Elliot S. Maggin
"...From the depth of my sorrow wells up and immaculate
compassion, and I find the will to live again."
--Gospel According To The Son, Norman Mailer
"Sophia Alderson, in addition to being ridiculously
beautiful, claimed to be God's messenger etc., etc. Sophia
Alderson claimed to be divinely inspired by the Virgin Mother at
least three times a day. Sophia Alderson claimed to have seen
the Virgin on at least forty-five occasions, that in fact, they
were the very closest of friends. Sophia Alderson was a very
sizeable nut indeed. She was also, like I said, ridiculously
beautiful."
--Scepticism, INC, Bo Fowler
"It was the end of one world and the beginning of another."
--Broken World
"The clock of Time has struck the 'Midnight Hour.' The blackest darkness
lies before the greatest dawn."
--Cheiro
"All saints are forsaken...aren't they?"
--Broken World
"The earth will be broken...we will see a change in the
physical aspect of the west coast of America."
--Edgar Cayce
"I can't promise you the world isn't ending. But neither
can any person, or any book, promise you that it is."
--Broken World
"After this misery has endured a time...
There shall be reborn...
A golden age..."
--Nostradamus
"O my Beloved, my beloved,
I am here, at Thy feet,
Thy pain is my pain...
I would have Thee know
That though Thou leavest my side,
Thou hast left me with child."
--Magdalene, M. Johnson,
"Homo spaiens is an amazing animal, Sister. Get God and
Aristotle off its back and miracles start becoming the norm."
--The Eternal Footman, James Morrow
"Keep that in mind. Remember that burn. God's angry."
--Broken World
"So I once bet £ 500,000 that God existed. Doesn't
everyone make at least one mistake?"
--Scepticism, INC Bo Fowler
"Jesus...you fell, you got up again, and I did not even lift
my little finger to help you. I wanted you to come to me, but
not before you suffered greatly. I sat, motionless, waiting for
you. And then...then you took me by the hand...and we went
inside and lay down...Never in my life have I known such sweetness."
--Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis
"I lost my faith in an interesting way. I believed in the
existance of everything: Heaven, Hell, the Angelic Host, demons
and possessions, redemption and growth...I believed in God and
all his glory. I bought it all. Always had. Still do. My
loss of faith derived from the continued reminder, on a
moment-to-moment basis, to me and everyone I ever loved, that
we are insignificant. It was...my realization that our lives
and even our immortal souls did not matter a damn, either to
God or His emissaries on Earth."
--Kingdom Come, Elliot S. Maggin
"I'm not asking you for anything, not an answer to change the world or even me. I just want you, whoever you are, whatever you are, if you're even there at all, I just want you to hear me...I just want you to know...I don't know what more I can do."
--Broken World
"I wasn't there for the so-called resurrection. What I do know is what became the greatest of all conspiracy theories. What every pope has known of. What every church leader has tried to keep a secret. There are rumors, there are stories, there are theories. But I'm about to tell you the truth."
--Broken World
