66 Quotes by Rene Denfeld

"This got me thinking – if there are things inside us too tiny to see, might there be things outside us too big to believe?"

"Be careful the purpose doesn’t destroy you."

"You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say."

"People try to make names for things they don’t understand."

"The moon, B had noticed, awakened the dawn, and so the two – like pale cousins – never saw each other. Even on the most hopeful of days the moon could only peep, from a distant sky, at the sun."

"After the economy collapsed following the mill closure, the townspeople apparently tried to find other ways to make money. The two-block main street has boarded-up signs for the Bead Store Emporium and Nature’s Gifts. She has come to recognize bead stores as indicators of economic doom."

"Everyone was harmless until you knew better."

"Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen – to hear – so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes."

"The guards hate the priest. To them, men like the priest paper the sky with romantic tissue-paper legends, but down here below the earth, in this enchanted place, we know life cannot be contained on a slogan or a prayer tablet. We know that kindness rules with the fist and chains rule with a turn to the sky, that all humans require penance and without it we all seek punishment, over and over again, until the body and mind are satisfied and we die."

"Time is measured in meaning."