11 Quotes by David Rhodes

He wondered if there were other places in the universe where the rules of the living did not require feeding on each other - where wonder could be discovered without horror and learning the truth did not entail losing one's faith.

Winnie trusted in the possibility of redemption. Life would not end in an apoplectic implosion of frustrated desires, foiled schemes, and defeated dreams, but rather in revealed glory.

We are all connected in ways we cannot even begin to fathom. Our lives unfold through each other and within each other. What one suffers, we all feel. What one does changes others forever.

We are not separate, and I want you to know that. We are all part of one thing, and nothing good has ever passed or ever can pass away. There is no way out, but there is a way in, and when one person feels lonely like a ghost it touches us all.

Telling the truth is always wrong if it threatens those for whom being wrong can never be true.

Winnie would never be free of religious thinking, and she couldn’t imagine ever wanting to be. She just needed a new schedule for her faith, one whose appointments with the divine were arranged not only through sermons, songs, and scripture, but rather on a walk-in basis with rocks, water, air, blood, space, and time.

You show how much you love someone by being there for them when they need you, by knowing what they need and anticipating those needs.

Depression-era memories. They could easily recall events – and spoke of them in earnest detail – that occurred before electricity, telephones, and interstate highways.

The roof leaked and the toilet flushed with the kind of diminished enthusiasm that often precedes serious septic difficulties. She.