Quotes About Guidance

taught him never to look at skin—the color of skin is nothing. We're all God's children. He was a good boy. I told him, he had to work, that all of us must earn our way. So he took the work there, there where they killed him. Because I told him to.

Licensed, regulated, taxed, safe. People pay for therapy, for physical training," he added, nodding at the board. "For spiritual guidance, and so on and so on. People pay for all manner of basic needs, and others train to provide those needs. Sex is a basic need.

matron of honor, that's where I'd advise you

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I believe there's a hand that guides us. It just isn't always a gentle one. Or one that seems fair at the time. But I dunno, I try to trust in it now. When I freak, I just try to... shit, I guess trust in it. Because at the end of the day, what else can you do? Choice only gets you so far. Reasoning and planning too. The rest... it's up to someone else. Where we end up, who we know, what happens to the people we love... we don't have a lot of control over any of it.

All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.

Darkness will never take me... because I have you. Light of my life, Marissa. That's what you are. -Butch and Marissa

Don't think I was the only reason he healed. You're his light, Marissa. Don't ever forget that.

he wanted to be like Tohr. Heading out into the corridor, it was funny to have that running through his brain again, and its return kind of righted the world: Ever since he'd first met the guy, whether it was the Brother's size, or his intelligence, or the way he treated his female, or how he fought, or even the deep sound of his voice . . . John had wanted to be like Tohr. This was good. This was . . . right.

V laughed deep in his throat. "Yeah, you can fight with me in the field when you're grown. And soon as you're big enough to hold a dagger … I'll make one for you. Forge it myself. You're gonna be just like your dad, one helluva a fighter. Just like him …

The love of a good woman is the savior of an aimless man.

You know you're the second person who has torn me apart tonight. Well, that's 'cause the good Lord clearly thinks you need to hear the message twice.

godfather or godmother to an individual.

It's because you're looking in the wrong place," Lassiter said. "You can go now." "Every time you say that, it brings a tear to my eye." "Funny, mine too." -Lassiter & Tohr

When you had no compass of your own, anyone's would do.

No voy a dejar que caigas en la oscuridad.

Dedicated to: You, with awe and love. Than you for coming and finding me. And for showing me the way. It was the ride of a lifetime, the best I've ever had.

You were the backbone of the person I became, the person I always wanted to be.

As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.

For the first four years of my life, while he lived, I was not Ti Jean Duluoz, I was Gerard, the world was his face, the flower of his face, the pale stooped disposition, the heartbreakingness and the holiness and his teachings of tenderness to me, and my mother constantly reminding me tonpay attention to his goodness and advice.

I don't know when we'll meet again or what'll happen in the future, but Desolation, Desolation, I owe so much to Desolation, thank you forever for guiding me to the place where I learned all. Now comes the sadness of coming back to cities and I've grown two months older and there's all that humanity of bars and burlesque shows and gritty love, all upsidedown in the void God bless them, but Japhy you and me forever we know, O ever youthful, O ever weeping.

Only sign we have now to know which way we're going, is ducks.

I have a brother I love dearly, although we're not twins! I'm ten years older than he is, so I sometimes feel like his second mother.