Compelling Quotes

“A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“She circled and rolled the pan, making sure to seal and burn the ragged edges. Pleased to discover the smell of his burning flesh wasn’t that much different than the bacon.”
― William Kely McClung, LOOP

“But most of all, she thought of John. She pictured him in Dingle, sitting out on the veranda of his wonderful little house, gazing with his peacefully intense, ocean blue eyes out toward the sea. She wondered if he was alone, and suspected he was, and she also reflected that he was probably quite sad, just as she was at that very moment.”
― Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

“He clamped his eyes shut and waited for the pang of something he could no longer name to subside; it plucked at steel threads holding him together and reverberated through his system.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

“Trust me Dani. You don’t want’a miss this. I’m not exaggeratin’ when I say the journey of a lifetime, of a hundred lifetimes, is just below us!”
― Steven Decker, Time Chain

“Well at least one of you present here today, has the scaly green balls to give me an honest answer,’ he said, as he broke into a hearty lizard laugh.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Inara

“The computer began to titter. ‘Well it’s a long story honey, but the concise version is this. Talalia has been a bad girl. She was grounded for six months after her last trip.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Inara

“Domination was and is at the heart of penis politics: a man maintaining power over a woman through gender or sex-based control…. Andrew (Cuomo) was the master of the art of penis politics. In Washington, he’d given me a job and then worked to undermine me in it. He made me feel as if I were no good at my job and, thus, totally dependent on him to keep it…. I had never seen anyone push so hard, day, noon, and night… But I was soon to learn that, as Andrew pushed up and up, some of us would be pushed aside.”
― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

“Isn’t this exciting!”
― A.R. Merrydew, Inara

“Time and space are incalculable, there measure is infinite. The formulas that explicate their workings, have all but been explained away. But there is one thing that remains, and always will.
‘The occurrence of events in the absence of any obvious intention or cause.’
Chance.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Inara

“Of course it’s taken many years to be able to express what’s been inside me. But nowadays I say to people I was born and brought up in a Latvian house in the country of Australia. So I consider that this house has always been a small part of Latvia, there’s always been Latvian traditions, Latvian foods, Latvian language and I’ve always considered that even though I lived in a large city, I lived in a Latvian ghetto. I mentioned the word ‘ghetto’ … which a lot of people consider negatively, but I consider it in a positive sense. I consider myself quite a competent schizophrenic—I am able to be very Latvian and very dinky-di strong. I don’t have any trouble switching hats. - Viktor Brenners, 2nd Generation DP”
― Peter Brune, Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66

“I glide my fingers across the diaphanous garment barely covering my skin and the increasingly aroused womanly features underneath. Just as his hands would, I explore, slowly— amazed at the heat I’m generating.”
― Crystal Raven, Virtual Mirrors: First Journal

“Don't fucking move," Jacob said, pressing the gun into Nick's back.”
― Sharon Carter, Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again

“My man should be like a virtual mirror to me. Know me—not just on the outside. Know what’s in my heart—my desires...and so much more.”
― Crystal Raven, Virtual Mirrors: First Journal

“I knew what I wanted. To save time, I said, “Just give me a good, old fashioned alpha male please.”
― Crystal Raven, Virtual Mirrors: First Journal

“Maybe it actually was worth the hassle to be a nonconformist? I am sick of being told what I should wear on my body.”
― Crystal Raven, Virtual Mirrors: First Journal

“Value those who give you constructive criticism, because without them doing so, you will never reach the peak of what you are do.”
― Unarine Ramaru

“God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Maybe I've got to be sufficiently broken by life's many broken promises to be sufficiently compelled to seek out God's unbreakable promises.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“I have been a fool, and a fool’s mistakes can often be costly. I never look back to see him again in my room. Mentally he is dead to me and I won’t allow the words of a dead man to hurt me.”
― Crystal Raven, Virtual Mirrors: First Journal

“Rousseau said that a woman’s place is the home. Many women are at home…watching their children starve. Some Assembly members voted for schools to teach girls home arts. Did any woman of the Third Estate not learn home arts as soon as she could walk? If women were educated, they’d have other ways to feed their children besides laundering and whoring.”
― Debra Borchert, Her Own Legacy

“I no longer possessed the luxury of falling in love. If something should happen to Papa, I would lose the legacy and be left in poverty.”
― Debra Borchert, Her Own Legacy

“Come with me beneath the waves,' she calls to him. 'Drown with me in delight.'

He laughs a little shakily. 'A compelling offer, but I must see my quest to its conclusion.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“Love is a compelling force”
― Sunday Adelaja

“There is nothing more compelling than another person.”
― Deke Sharon, The Heart of Vocal Harmony: Emotional Expression in Group Singing

“Freedom looked like racism wrapped up in a bow.”
― Katina Horton

“In a more public place, it wouldn’t be wise to do something like this without first donning the cloak. The risk of being reported by lurking social rule enforcers seeking to curry favor in the “system” was too extreme.”
― Crystal Raven, Virtual Mirrors: First Journal

“Fiction transcends life truths in a manner that makes them inviting so that we might see life’s truths in a manner that makes them compelling.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I need a minute.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand, Illustrated