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Even now, over a half-century later, the engraved words stirred emotions in him he would rather not confront. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Create a mould, and pour yourself in it. See what you want to be, and be. Don't fear the pain. Pain is good. Pain is price. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
He couldn't even remember her name any more. when, he caught himself wondering, had he started to forget? ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
I've always said the world is filled with as much wonder as sorrow. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
In all his years he had not seen one as ancient as this, so obviously belonging to a world far older than his own. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
He felts as if a tumour had burst inside his skull, ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
We've been to secretive, perhaps. For long periods in our shared history, that was a necessity born from conflict. But it is not, I am prepared to accept, a style of living compatible with the modern age. It is difficult to maintain trust that way. Even among friends. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
For years she had lived in a vacuum of emotions, and now emotions boiled in her: love, fear, hope, shame, self-pity, pride; each struggled for supremacy, ruling only briefly, before surrendering to a contender that was sometimes darker and sometimes lighter, but always different. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Yes, yes. I've heard the argument. If we all lived as long as you, we'd be in crisis. Population explosion. The stability of our society would fracture. Chaos. Anarchy. And perhaps there's a shred of truth in that. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
This vocation of yours.
She knew that a hunger dwelled in her, in that place where happier emotions should reside, a hunger she could neither sate nor deny. While her compulsion to scratch that itch never faded, she knew that she performed a service to the world in these coll west London rooms. While it was work for which she would receive not a single word of thanks, its value, Etienne believed, could not be denied. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
She fought black tears. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
perhaps that's what we thought we were. Benevolent gods.
Now look at us. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
I am to be judged today. But tomorrow, in the way treat an innocent, you will all be judged. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
She noticed a bitter aroma of a extinguished cigar, the citrus scent of cologne. And underneath those, an electric odour of excitement, of barely controlled fury. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
The pain would be awful , but at least she would be free. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Perhaps it was a tacit acknowledgement of her tendency to find danger, to gravitate towards self-destruction, but she'd been terrified of heights all her life. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Twice damned, in truth, and yet by quirk of timing and fate accepted into that society denied to so many others. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
She may be close. She may have crawled into the bushes. She may be dying there, wanting to find somewhere peaceful, somewhere away from the sharp metal and the stink of burning and the violence and the madness. Or she's died already, alone and frightened, and wondering where you were, why you broke your promise, why you allowed this to happen. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
What year was it now? He couldn't even say. But finally, the task to which he'd dedicated himself was done. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Hunched forward, feeling his ears burning, his hands shaking. Tried to concentrate. Found his eyes flickering over sentences and phrases, retaining nothing. [Charles Meredith] ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
She never liked the man. What she saw now, she liked even less. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Those final moments, while horrific in one sense, were intimate in another. Perhaps when you finally realized were beaten - that there really was no hope - something was triggered in the mind, allowing you to expunge, accept. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Their touch triggered an electric spasm of agony. He felt the gushing warmth of blood on his fingers. [Charles Meredith] ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
He grinned, the skin of his mouth streching far wider that it should have done, exposing teeth as far back as his molar. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Whatever had arrived to save her had not spoken, had not announced itself with anything except the silent killing it brought. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Her beauty was matchless, face so elegantly crafted that she appeared ethereal; unreal. But while nature had clearly bestowed the gift of physical perfection, it had not breathed the warmth of humanity into its creation. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
An apology, even as sincere as the one she had just received, could repair not one hour of the suffering she had endured over the last one hundred years, but ... her thoughts trailed away from her and her mouth fell open. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
You want to run. I understand that. I do believe you almost found the courage just then, until cowardice unmanned you. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
() Teeth clenched, she heard herself snarl out words in a voice feral in its savagery (...) ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
when she realised he was enjoying the cut-glass shrill of silence that followed, she felt a hatred for him so extreme that had it found physical release, he would have dropped to the floor with every bone in his body shattered. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
A lot of mistakes, but all of them in the past. Some made with worthy intentions, some without. When you live a long time you get to collect a lot of mistakes. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
I share that pain. Those events have sparked anger, resentment, further division. I empathise with your anger. I understand your resentment. More than anything, I seek to heal that division. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
She did not know how the figure was, but she knew it was damaged too badly to live. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
We're talking about an awareness; pure consciousness, if you like. If it helps, think of our interpretation of the soul. Do you believe you have a soul? Whether you do or you don't, it's a device that features regularly in mythology. the only difference, here, is that whereas we generally consider our souls tethered to a single body during our physical experience, the tolvajok have no such restrictions. They simply need a host. And when one host starts to die, they go on and take another. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
He fell to the floor a second time, accompanied by a rain of books. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
She was an impostor here, unfit to be around these innocent lives. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
(He) found that articulating those feelings made him feel morose. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Yet surely no afterlife could be cruel enough to accept not just her soul but all her agony. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
On its rocky tip, dominating the scenery for miles around, stood he Villa dell'Ossevatore. Breathtakingly beautiful, it comprised three individual buildings and a single watchtower, roofed in terracotta tile and connected by stone bridges and loggias. Its lush gardens and lawns encircled the peninsula in steadily descending terraces, and a wide stone-built staircase hugged the rock all the way down to the waterline, terminating at a landing stage edged with balustrades. Higher up the hillside she saw the pergolas straining under the branches of ancient wisteria, and huge displays of azaleas and camellias. Ivy clung to the west-facing sides of the buildings and curled among its statues. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
It's like a pint right here, an emptiness. There's nothing I can do to fill it. If you're telling me I can't have you, if you're really telling me that, I just don't know what I'll do. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
You're starting to have doubts, aren't you? twenty years of having this tale drip-fed to you is beginning to have its effects. You've polluted your mind with it and now you can't sort myth from reality. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
She tried, and failed, to stop herself from shaking. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
There have been so many untruths, I don' blame you for being confused. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
When she kissed his mouth, she tasted blood and swallowed it. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
As if this was normal.
As if nothing had happened during the night. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
She stopped, and he knew she had caught herself, dismayed a what she had been about to reveal. [Nicole Dubois] ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Those were the black ears; the lost years. He had allowed himself to become the victim of events, rather than their master. [Jakab] ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Do I even want this burden any more? Probably not, I'm too old, too tired. And what, after all. have I achieved in all this time? ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
He knew she had been telling the truth when she told him she seldom asked for help. It was clear in her every interaction with him - in her speech , even in the way she held herself- that she was used to standing alone. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Somehow he's looked inside me and he's seen what lurks in there: that even in my grief, all I worry about is myself. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
She could not hope to overcome him, but if she could find a blade quickly enough, if she could open her wrists. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Her words might have been meant for another, but they had the quality of sunlight nonetheless. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
He smiled. Rather, he widened his mouth, exposing teeth. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
It's a difficult thing to offer leadership to a people who have lost control over their future. But offer it I must. And when I look around me and see the dignity displayed by our last generation, see their elegance and their grace, it fills me with pride even as it tears at my heart. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
A few minutes later, he heard, floating down the hallway outside, the steady creak of bedsprings, a metronomic nightmare in the darkness. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
- I want to atone -
He couldn't of course. Nothing he did now could atone fully for what he had done. But he could do one thing. Just one thing. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Not ignoble. Don't torture yourself over it. I can't change the past but I can, hopefully, ease your fears from the future. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Knowledge had always been the most important weapon in all of this. [Hannah Wilde] ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Her expression was distant and he was ashamed to find himself hunting for sings of pain in her features, some evidence of heartache. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Can I blame them? they're sick with fear. We've grown too entrenched here, too entwined. Too immersed in the beating heart of this city, this country, this region, We've grown heavy and fat on our our wealth, collective power. We've become addicted to our influence, our mystique. And it's all a myth. An illusion. A crystal tower, standing on sand. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
even now, the building raised a conflicting set of emotions in her: memories of pain and loss, but also of healing and discovery. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
She preferred fear to misplaced confidence. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
She nodded, knowing that he toyed with her, lightening her anguish, but she had no power in this exchange. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
There's Moses (...) Better company that some humans I've known [Sebastien] ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
It broke over him, a frothing, churning sea a images and sound, so vivid he had to close his eyes against it and hold his breath. Faces long dead; words spoken and heard; professions of love and regret and hate; episodes of intimacy as painful to recall as those characterised by violence. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Ins't that the point? It's neither your right, nor your privilege, to sit in judgement of anyone. Certainly not a people about whom you know so little. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Yet she felt no horror at what she had witnessed, no nausea. their lives - and their deaths - had not mattered. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Five years ago I was in love with you so utterly I thought I might go mad from it. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Pointless to question the sanity of it. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
They say there's as many as four hundred billion stars in our galaxy" he murmured. "And our galaxy's just one in perhaps five hundred billion others. That's about seventy each of you, me and every other human who walks the earth". ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
And suddenly, magically, as she started at the single enameled button, she felt as if a plug ad been pulled somewhere deep within her, and all of her emotions - her terror and her rage and her guilt and her hate - were spiraling, draining out of her like poison from an abscess. What remained was the clarity of a single thought. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
But I can't clean your blood and yours, I'm afraid, is tainted. We'll educate you, feed and clothe you, send you out into the world. But I can't do anything to purify your blood. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
The rush of emotion unbalanced him, his initial outrage eclipsed by an all-consuming grief. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
I'm impressed by your protectiveness over them, but I'm only asking for an introduction. Are they so fragile they need an old man as chaperon? Do they have no tongues? ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
The last begonias wilting in the chalet's hanging baskets laced the air with a lemon and cinnamon fragrance. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
He had imagined he wanted a hundred things; a thousand. But really, even though he had not spoken his answer aloud, he found he only wanted one.
- I want this to end - ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Cotswold stone framed tiny sash windows gleaming with pale green paint. Wisteria vines twisted about the stone, bunches of purple flowers hanging thick and heavy with pollen. Above it all a tiled roof sagged with sage. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
All friendships experiences challenges, periods of difficulty. But true friendships also endure. True friendships heal. ask yourself if this is a true friendship and I hope you'll agree that is what we have. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
(...) Stage fright, if you like. Easier to hide behind a persona than to bare one's soul. I'm really not the monster you think I am. I just wanted to talk to you unencumbered by all this complications, all this ... history. [Jakab] ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
And then a monstrous idea jumped into her head, a thought so ruthless and dark she almost fled from the contemplation of it. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
For so many years she'd lived a life absent of emotion or companionship or love. She'd functioned as an automaton, acting out her part without feeling, lacking even the introspection to ask why she'd cast herself in this role, or where it all might end. It hadn't even been a lonely existence because she felt no loneliness; she felt nothing. Whereas now, she felt everything. Emotions festered in her; fear pecked like a carrion bird, guilt ripped and chewed. And, at her core, that crushing sense of hopelessness, threatening to consume everything that she'd started to become. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
(...) Try not to speak ill of people in the future. You never know when they might be listening (...) ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones
Mercy and truth are met together', and if I can think of mercy only at the expense of truth and law, it is not true mercy, it is a false understanding of the term. ~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it ... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fulness and in Him alone. ~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Now listen. Faith is like oxygen. It keeps you afloat at all times. Sometimes you need it. Sometimes you don't. but when you do need it you better be practiced at having faith, otherwise it won't work. That's why the missionaries built all the churches. Before we got those churches we weren't practicing enough. That's what prayers are for - practice, children. Practice. ~ Lloyd Jones
As we watched the soldiers and the Rambo disappear I remember feeling preternaturally calm. This is what deep, deep fear does to you. It turns you into a state of unfeeling. ~ Lloyd Jones
If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin. ~ David Lloyd-Jones
The heretics were never dishonest men; they were mistaken men. They should not be thought of as men who were deliberately setting out to go wrong and to teach something that is wrong; they have been some of the most sincere men that the Church has ever known. What was the matter with them? Their trouble was this: they evolved a theory and they were rather pleased with it; then they went back with this theory to the Bible, and they seemed to find it everywhere. ~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I'm a disaster. You know I am. I'm prickly. I prefer dead people to living ones. I'm only good at digging graves and surviving in a forest. ~ Emily Lloyd-Jones
The gospel is meant to control and govern everything in our lives. ~ David Lloyd-Jones
And that's when you realize what the Wagon really is, Lloyd. It's a church with bars on the windows, a church for women and a prison for you. ~ Stephen King
Monsters were unrestrained, unbound, and beautiful in their destruction. They could be slain but they would never be truly defeated. ~ Emily Lloyd-Jones
To teach men that they possess the ability to turn from sin when they choose to do so is to hide the true extent of their need. ~ Iain H. Murray
Warmth kindled in her chest, and she found herself smiling back, charmed by her ability to charm him. ~ Emily Lloyd-Jones
The Gospel edifies and evangelizes at the same time. ~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Thanks to dreams, in the history of the galaxy the world has been reinvented more often than there are stars. ~ Lloyd Jones
The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God. ~ David Lloyd-Jones
It does not say, 'Blessed are those who are persecuted because they are objectionable.' It does not say, 'Blessed are those who are having a hard time in their Christian life because they are being difficult.' It does not say, 'Blessed are those who are being persecuted as Christians because they are seriously lacking in wisdom and are really foolish and unwise in what they regard as being their testimony. ~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace, wondrous grace. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES ~ Bob Christopher
Even death is going to die! ~ Sally Lloyd-Jones