166 Quotes by Robert Jackson Bennett

Rifles are for people who are going out to do shooting. But a man carrying a pistol – he’s worried about getting shot at.

One should not seek ugliness in this world. There is no lack of it. You will find it soon enough, or it will find you.” Taty.

Miracles are just formal requests, Shara thinks wildly. It’s like having a form preprinted and filled out and handing it in to get exactly what you want! But you don’t always have to do it that way! You can make it up as you go along, so long as you do it right!

Humanity’s relationship with the Divine is one of mutual give and take, and we mutually opted to part ways. But this perpetuation – setting up a way of thinking, and just letting it run – it doesn’t always yield good results.

I... suppose I find you... refreshingly uncontained.

Deserve.′ How preoccupied we are with that. With what we should have, with what we are owed. I wonder if any word has ever caused more heartache.

In my operational days, there were three ways of thinking about things. There were things you knew. Then there were things you knew you didn’t know. And then there were the things you didn’t know that you didn’t know.” “No wonder we keep having so many international crises,” she says, “if you lot are running around talking like that.

What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back and see it was full of treasures.

She did not think it was love. She did not think it was love when she felt a curious ache and anxiety when he was not there; she did not think it was love as she felt relief wash over her when she received a note from him; she did not think it was love when she sometimes wondered what their lives would be like after five, ten, fifteen years together. The idea of love never crossed her mind.