souls Quotes

“Girls like her were born in a storm. They have lightning in their souls. Thunder in their hearts. And chaos in their bones.”

“Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.”

“From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.”

“We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.”

“We all have souls of different ages.”

“‘My children,’ said the preacher, ‘one truth the human soul finds hardest of all to learn: that it has nothing to fear. It can never be made to see that nothing can really harm it.’”

“Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?”

“Isn’t there a scent, an energy, a singing in the blood, a sharing of the soul? Or have we evolved from even that most basic ability, the deepest of human connections?”

“How dangerous it is when our souls are gasping for God but we’re too distracted flirting with the world to notice.”

“If I had power I would sink the sea beneath the earth, rather than the good ship should be destroyed with all the precious souls within her.”

“My mother had reminded me then there were souls whose fates were so terrible in comparison to ours, that we should consider ourselves among the fortunate of the earth. I knew she was thinking of the slaves who were sold daily so close to where we lived.”

“My soul sees its equal in you.”

“God leads every soul by a separate path.”

“I knew that in doing so I was committing a sin- a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it- if such a thing were possible- even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the most Merciful and most Terrible God.”

“Everything seems to have a soul—wood, stones, the wine we drink and the earth we tread on. Everything, boss, absolutely everything!”

“How else is the soul to free itself from burden except by a little malice?”

“You can’t own my soul. What I have, I made, what I have is mine. What I have I made, what I have is mine.”

“It’s easy to become anything you wish, so long as you’re willing to forfeit your soul.”

“Silas could feel his homeland testing him, drawing violent memories from his redeemed soul. You have been reborn, he reminded himself. His service to God today had required the sin of murder, and it was a sacrifice Silas knew he would have to hold silently in his heart for all eternity.”

″‘I set my curse on you, Esteban!’ Ferula shouted back. ‘You will always be alone! Your body and soul will shrivel up and you’ll die like a dog!‘”

“Can’t you see my soul is very old and you’re still a child?”

“Really, I would pawn my soul to the devil to find out whether he is alive or dead.”

“The Negro. The South. These are details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls and bodies of other men (and in the process destroy themselves) for reasons neither really understands.”