205 Quotes About Odd-thomas

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping.

...With a pneumatic hiss, the door slid open.Brother John says the hiss is not an inevitable consequence of the operation of the door. It could have been made to open silently.He incorporated the hiss to remind himself that in every human enterprise, no matter with what virtuous intentions it is undertaken, a serpent lurks.

On the third, directly before me, were embedded more polished letters: PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM.For ever and ever. In the red light, the brushed steel glowed softly, like embers. The polish letters blazed.Without a hiss, For ever and ever slid aside, as though inviting me to eternity.

I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.

When my wits fail me, I resort to self-deception.

Be afraid in proportion to the threat.

I need useful work to keep my mind occupied, but I'd like to find work where it's...quieter.

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.