Marianne Curley Quotes

Your self-assurance scares me.'
'That's only because you don't have any. ~ Marianne Curley

Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe. ~ Marianne Curley

I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry and court romance. But I never pictured anything as poor as this village. This is the pits. There's no romance here, definitely no chivary. And it stinks
of sweat and smoke and sewage. ~ Marianne Curley

Grief and passion make a volatile mix. ~ Marianne Curley

I push throughthe wind to the north-facing window and stand before it. 'I will bring her back!' I shout into the darkness.
I do this because I know Rhauk will be listening. ~ Marianne Curley

Being Married does´t mean you have to give up your sight! ~ Marianne Curley

Malcom clears his throat and Jarrod spins around, Jillian's amulet reflecting the morning sun. 'Kate! ~ Marianne Curley

I won't show weakness here, but, damn it, tears don't mean I'm frail and pathetic, only that I'm unhappy. ~ Marianne Curley

I sense a deep despair inside this boy that must be hard to live with. ~ Marianne Curley

Frowning, puzzled, I cross my arms over my chest. "Go to hell." His eyebrows lift as he draws near enough so that I can accept his offer of wine, and smell his pungent breath. " Not without you, my dear ~ Marianne Curley

Isabel sends her brother a look that could boil him in oil if she had that particular paranormal talent. A thought hits me: maybe she has. It will be fun to find out. ~ Marianne Curley

Darkness at Blacklands is scary. ~ Marianne Curley

Blood trickles from my throat, on to Kate's white nightgown. She screams at the sight. 'Jarrod, you're bleeding!'
'I'm all right, don't struggle I won't let it get to you. ~ Marianne Curley

This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me. ~ Marianne Curley

For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest love. How easy, how fulfilling would it be to take Marduk's life? But the arrow in Ethan's fingers slips to the ground.
"No. even revenge is too great an honor for you."
As the night falls and brings an end to this long day of darkness, Marduk inhales his last staggered breath and his body turns to stone. ~ Marianne Curley

What if you believed that those characteristics that the beige army (or an 8-year-old kid) say are 'too weird' are the very things that deserve to be treasured? ~ Marianne Cantwell

What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us. ~ Marianne Williamson

If you deny yourself your own passion, your own path, your own longing, your own drama, your own life force, your own truth - then you might be tempted to live vicariously through those who allow themselves theirs. Your creative energy has got to go somewhere, even if it is projected onto others. You're tempted to live a life of fantasy if you deny yourself a life of truth. ~ Marianne Williamson

So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths ... ~ Marianne Moore

Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives ~ Marianne Williamson

When love isn't in our lives, it's on the way. If you know that a special guest is coming at five o'clock, do you spend the day messing up the home? Of course not. You prepare. And that is what we should do for love. ~ Marianne Williamson

Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts. ~ Marianne Williamson

The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly. ~ Marianne Williamson

I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places. ~ Marianne Fredriksson

We ask Him to save us from our tendency to condemn. We ask Him to reveal to us the innocence within others, that we might see it within ourselves. ~ Marianne Williamson

Excess is the common substitute for energy. ~ Marianne Moore

Two paths lie ahead of today's CIOs. One leads to becoming a trusted senior executive leader of the enterprise; the other leads to a technical management, "just keep the lights on and do it cheap" role. ~ Marianne Broadbent

So it is with you. The perfect you isn't something you need to create, because God already created it. The perfect you is the love within you. Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self, just as excess marble surrounded Michelangelo's perfect statue. ~ Marianne Williamson

When we're willing to see the innocence in another person even when he or she has behaved without love toward us, we activate the Law of Divine Compensation. ~ Marianne Williamson

The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts. ~ Marianne Williamson

A threat to our freedom is a threat to our freedom, whether from a terrorist or from a trade deal. ~ Marianne Williamson

The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity. ~ Marianne Williamson

Your life shows up for you when you show up for your life. ~ Marianne Williamson

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow. ~ Marianne Williamson

The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published. ~ Marianne Cushing

God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours. ~ Marianne Williamson

I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera. ~ Rufus Wainwright

Go forth in confidence and go forth in peace. For there are angels to your left and angels to your right; angels in front of you and angels behind you; angels above you and angels below. You are loved, and you are not alone ... ~ Marianne Williamson

Available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy. ~ Marianne Williamson

To bear witness to all the unnecessary suffering on the planet and make ourselves available to service - whatever that means for each of us. We go deep in our personal relationships in America, but we need to go deep in our public relationships as well. ~ Marianne Williamson

Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not. ~ Marianne Williamson

The rage building up, generation after generation, among what has become a permanent underclass in many parts of the world cannot continue. We are desperately undereducating our children. In the United States, we are turning prison-building into the single largest urban industry. These are like toxic chemical factors any one of which could cause a raging fire. God help us if they begin to interact. ~ Marianne Williamson

Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young. ~ Marianne Faithfull

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain. ~ Marianne Williamson

LOVE" is the Answer...
Whatever the Question.... ~ Marianne

The love
that saves us
is not a love that might come to us in the future,
but rather the love we can give
to whomever is around us
right now. ~ Marianne Williamson

The world cannot evolve if girls refuse to become women. ~ Marianne Williamson

Whatever outrageous dream keeps flowing across your mind, allow it to live inside you. Don't deflect it, diminish it, invalidate it or come up with some excuse for why it can't happen. This will allow it to explain itself to you - why it's there, what it means, and what if anything you should do about it. ~ Marianne Williamson

She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister.
"I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him
that I greatly esteem, that I like him."
Marianne here burst with forth with indignation:
"Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment."
Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings. ~ Jane Austen

Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life. ~ Marianne Williamson

We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory. ~ Marianne Moore

Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time. ~ Marianne Williamson

To love is to accept that one might die another death before one dies one's own. ~ Marianne Wiggins

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse. ~ Marianne Williamson