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1. "May my living be grace to those behind me." ~ N.D. Wilson
2. "Is this what mortality means? Is this how I know my body is of the sort that can stop, that can feed crabs, that will someday be placed in a box and dropped in a hole? I have a need to stand near the edge, to feel this small risk, to feel my heart beat. If I were not the dying sort, I would be standing closer, beneath the full blow of each breaker." ~ N.D. Wilson
3. "Do your best. Live. Create. Fail." ~ N.D. Wilson
4. "Henry York, aka Whimpering Child, aka WC (hair sample included), is hereby identified as Enemy, Hazard, and Human Mishap to all faeren in all districts, in all ways, and in all worlds." ~ N.D. Wilson
5. "Henry's in the cupbord,' Richard said. 'I opted to sit this one out. Would it be incovenient for me to stay?" ~ N.D. Wilson
6. "No place is ever the same tomorrow." ~ N.D. Wilson
7. "Don't follow me. I don't want to kill you.""You're too kind." ~ N.D. Wilson
8. "If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?" ~ N.D. Wilson
9. "By His grace, we are the water made wine. We are the dust made flesh made dust made flesh again. We are the whores made brides and the thieves made saints and the killers made apostles. We are the dead made living.We are His cross. (167)" ~ N.D. Wilson
10. "He was a man with eyebrows, or maybe they were eyebrows with a man. Ownership would have been hard to establish, and Cyrus couldn't focus on anything else—the two fur hedges looked like they were trying to escape his face." ~ N.D. Wilson
11. "Cheese, Leon! Go get the cheese!" ~ N.D. Wilson
12. "Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you." ~ N.D. Wilson
13. "Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others..." ~ N.D. Wilson
14. "That wasn't me. I'm not a morning person. There's another person inside of me that does all the morning things." ~ N.D. Wilson
15. "Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age." ~ N.D. Wilson
16. "Here Spring just grows and greens and warms, spreading life, wrapping us in her arms, until suddenly we realize that she's not a girl anymore. She's a woman. A woman named Summer." ~ N.D. Wilson
17. "To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip enemies of their greatest weapon. Even if they break our bodies and drain our blood, we are unvanquished. Our goal was never to live; our goal is to love. It is the goal of all noble men and women. Give all that can be given. Give even your live itself." ~ N.D. Wilson
18. "Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly." ~ N.D. Wilson
19. "Her evil cannot reach us here. Let us burn the ancient tree-mace trees and close off the ancient ways. Tear down the tower, the crown of our barrow, and let us hide ourselves from evil. Let no one leave the mound, and if evil grows, we shall flee farther.No! Let evil hear the pounding of our feet! Let evil hear our drumming and our chanting songs of war. Let evil fear us! Let evil flee! In any world, may dark things know our names and fear. May their vile skins creep and shiver at every mention of the faeren. Let the night flee before the dawn and darkness crowd into the shadows. We march to war!"- Nudd, the Chestnut King" ~ N.D. Wilson
20. "But God never seems capable of moderation" ~ N.D. Wilson
21. "Should we care about philosopher if the world so clearly doesn't?" ~ N.D. Wilson
22. "Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed." ~ N.D. Wilson
23. "Nietzsche- a weak but strongly mustachioed, Lutheran Pastor's son." ~ N.D. Wilson
24. "Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain-they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter. With an average life expectancy of 78.2 years in the US (subtracting eight hours a day for sleep), I have around 250,00 conscious hours remaining to me in which I could be smiling or scowling, rejoicing in my life, in this race, in this story, or moaning and complaining about my troubles. I can be giving my fingers, my back, my mind, my words, my breaths, to my wife and my children and my neighbors, or I can grasp after the vapor and the vanity for myself, dragging my feet, afraid to die and therefore afraid to live. And, like Adam, I will still die in the end." ~ N.D. Wilson
25. "i love the world as it is, because I love what it will be." ~ N.D. Wilson
26. "I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see" ~ N.D. Wilson
27. "Every rock is spoon by the Word. Every time I touch a stone, I am touching the Voice of God. Every cell of me is crafted by that artistry. My life is His breath. But we mortals grow numb. We want to feel more. And so we add MSG to our earthly brands of holiness." ~ N.D. Wilson
28. "Your life will contribute to a grand and wonderful story no matter what you do. You have been spoken. You are here, existing, choosing, living, shaping the future and carving the past. Your physical matter and your soul exist, not out of necessity, not voluntarily, and not under their own strength. There is absolutely nothing that you or I can do to guarantee that we will continue to exist. You aren't doing anything that makes you be. We aren't the Author. You and I are spoken. We have been called into this art as characters, born into this thread of occurrence tumbling downstream in the long Niagara of loss set in motion by the trouble that faced our first father and first mother. We will contribute to this narrative. But how?" ~ N.D. Wilson
29. "Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others." ~ N.D. Wilson
30. "As sub-assistant-treasurer in this archipelago, there are conversations I've been meaning to have. We could have those now, young Loam." ~ N.D. Wilson
31. "He made slighting remarks about the committee's enforcement, and, well, rules is rules as the rules say someplace, or at least as all the oldies say they say." ~ N.D. Wilson
32. "and a smaller, sad, little-dead-poet sphere with acne scars spins around us lighting the night..." ~ N.D. Wilson
33. "...Shakespeare, adrenal glands, professional bowling, and the bizarre reproductive patterns of wasps (along with teams of BBC cameraman to document them(" ~ N.D. Wilson
34. "But philosophy proper has become a place to hide..." ~ N.D. Wilson
35. "Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot your local cemetery and find yourself mired in social awkwardness. But unearth the tomb of an ancient king and you can feel free to pop off his toe rings. You'll probably end up on a book tour, or bagging an honorary degree or two." ~ N.D. Wilson
36. "Do not resent your place in the story. Do not imagine yourself elsewhere. Do not close your eyes and picture a world without thorns, without shadows, without hawks. Change this world. Use your body like a tool meant to be used up, discarded, and replaced. Better every life you touch. We will reach the final chapter. When we have eyes that can stare into the sun, eyes that only squint for the Shenikah, then we will see laughing children pulling cobras by their tails, and hawks and rabbits playing tag." ~ N.D. Wilson
37. "The world is rated R, and no one is checking IDs. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. Do not try to hide your children from the world forever, but do not try to pretend there is no danger. Train them. Give them sharp eyes and bellies full of laughter. Make them dangerous. Make them yeast, and when they've grown, they will pollute the shadows." ~ N.D. Wilson
38. "You fainted,' Tom said.Reg coughed.No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out." ~ N.D. Wilson
39. "Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had to rewrite the whole thing in shorthand, smashing it into two dimensions, just to talk about it. Or don't imagine it. Look outside. Human language is our attempt at navigating God's language; it is us running between the lines of His epic, climbing on the vowels and building houses out of the consonants." ~ N.D. Wilson
40. "In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In this story, Winter can never hold back the Spring... He is the best of all possible audiences, the only Audience to see every scene, the Author who became a Character and heaped every shadow on Himself. The Greeks were right. Live in fear of a grinding end and a dank hereafter. Unless you know a bigger God, or better yet, are related to Him by blood." ~ N.D. Wilson
41. "Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar. When funnel clouds walk through the wheat, big hail falls behind. As the biggest stones melt, turtles and mice and fish and even men can be seen frozen inside. And Kansas is not surprised.Henry York had seen things in Kansas, things he didn't think belonged in this world. Things that didn't. Kansas hadn't flinched." ~ N.D. Wilson
42. "After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving behind the secretive sounds, the shy sounds, the whispers and conversations of moss disputing with grass over some soft piece of earth, or the hummingbird snoring." ~ N.D. Wilson
43. "Woman and children behind the lines!' he yelled, and all the girls jumped. Henry froze with his mouth open. 'Bang the drum slowly and ask not for whom the bell's ringing, for the answer's unfriendly!' He threw a fist in the air. 'Two years have my black ships sat before Troy, and today its gate shall open before the strength of my arm.' Dotty was laughing from the kitchen. Frank looked at his nephew. 'Henry, we play baseball tomorrow. Today we sack cities. Dots! Fetch me my tools! Down with the French! Once more into the breach, and fill the wall with our coward dead! Half a league! Half a league! Hey, batter, batter!'Frank brought his fist down onto the table, spilling Anastasia's milk, and then he struck a pose with both arms above his head and his chin on his chest. The girls cheered and applauded. Aunt Dotty stepped back into the dining room carrying a red metal toolbox." ~ N.D. Wilson
44. "I listened to you tell me, tell everyone, and all the world, "Praise the Lord." You were broken, but not by bullets and bombs. You were broken by grace." ~ N.D. Wilson
45. "Rule 1 for Mortals: Love the Lord your God (with every bit of you). Rule 2 for Mortals: Love your neighbor as yourself. Tip 1 for Mortals: Ask God to call your bluffs." ~ N.D. Wilson
46. "I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one." ~ N.D. Wilson
47. "I love it with all of its villains and pretty liars and self-righteous pompers" ~ N.D. Wilson
48. "The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive." ~ N.D. Wilson
49. "God's big enough that small doesn't matter." ~ N.D. Wilson
50. "The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue." ~ N.D. Wilson
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