Boyd Quotes

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We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problemsβ€”the ones that make you truly who you areβ€”that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong personβ€”someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, β€œThis is the problem I want to have.” I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.
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Andrew Boyd (Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe)
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Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.
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Andrew Boyd (Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe)
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It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.
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William Boyd (Any Human Heart)
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So... why did it end?" Sin looked at Boyd sidelong before shrugging simply. "Because he wasn't you
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Santino Hassell (The Interludes (In the Company of Shadows, #3))
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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Boyd K. Packer
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If a man asks me for my loyalty...I will give him my honesty. If a man asks me for my honesty...I will give him my loyalty!
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John Boyd
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His voice wavered and he looked down abruptly, at last making some vain effort to hide the shameful tears that tracked down his cheeks even as he continued to pin Boyd against the wall. 'I wish I could hate you. God, I wish I could fucking kill you for doing this to me. Why couldn't you just leave me alone if it was going to be this way?
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Santino Hassell (Evenfall (In the Company of Shadows, #1))
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When they were partially up the stairs and mostly out of earshot, Sin looked at Boyd again. 'Don't get killed or I'll be very annoyed with you.
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Santino Hassell (Evenfall (In the Company of Shadows, #1))
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We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.
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William Boyd (CORK.)
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Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.
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Brandon Boyd
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Someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything, so do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.
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Brandon Boyd
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His favorite saying was, 'Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum." "'Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe'?" Boyd said, sounding a little incredulous. Isabella hadn't, apparently, been the only one who understood her defiance. She nodded. "Usually he only said it when my brother or I were being particularly horrible.
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Patricia Briggs (Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1))
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Sin: I've survived a winter in Siberia when I was ten. Boyd: what were you doing there at ten years old? Sin: searching for Santa Claus.
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Santino Hassell (Evenfall: Volume 1: Director's Cut (In the Company of Shadows, #1 part #1))
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Standing back and staring blankly at the glass, he realized he had no idea what it meant to preheat. Obviously he heated it prior to something, but to what? -Boyd
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Ais (Evenfall (In the Company of Shadows, #1))
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If there was a hell beyond what he knew, he would welcome it. He had no reason not to. After all, a life without living was simply a death without dying. What more was there to fear or hate but life, endless life, with no respite?
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Ais (Evenfall (In the Company of Shadows, #1))
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All that mattered was that Boyd was there. He was there for Sin, and when Sin opened his eyes to look at Boyd once more, Sin ignored all the self-doubt and paranoia. Because at that moment he somehow knew that Boyd always would be.
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Santino Hassell (Afterimage (In the Company of Shadows, #2))
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He loved him enough to want to die for hurting him, loved him enough to kill himself slowly for fear of losing him, loved him enough to suffer silently if he thought it was in Boyd's interest. Sin loved Boyd enough to make difficult decisions easily, as if there were no contest; he went toward Boyd as if he hadn't even considered any other choices.
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Santino Hassell (Afterimage (In the Company of Shadows, #2))
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Don't you have anything better to fucking do other than babysit and eventually get killed by some psycho?" "No." Boyd said without hesitation. "I don't.
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Santino Hassell (Evenfall: Volume 1: Director's Cut (In the Company of Shadows, #1 part #1))
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the world is a rollercoaster, and i am not strapped i, maybe i should hold with care but my hands are busy in the air
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Brandon Boyd
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He'd lost the only part of his life that made it worth living because of a couple random fucks. How ridiculous.
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Santino Hassell (Afterimage (In the Company of Shadows, #2))
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So, I'm just going to tell you how it is for me,' Boyd continued frankly. His gaze was intense and sincere as he didn't look away from Sin's eyes. 'I love you more than I've ever loved anyone. I think about you all the time. It's been hell trying to keep myself away - every time you're close I just want to touch you. I would do anything for you. And if I could have anything in the world right now, I would be in a relationship with you.
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Ais (The Interludes (In the Company of Shadows, #3))
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I love you, Hsin," he said hoarsely. "I missed you so much." "I love you, too." Sin's voice was still thick and husky. "I came back for you. Because I wanted to find you, because I wanted to remember you.
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Santino Hassell (Fade (In the Company of Shadows, #4))
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I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.
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William Boyd (Any Human Heart)
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Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.
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Brandon Boyd
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Don't waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, win their love or salvage their respect for you. The truth is this: If they care they will go out of their way to learn the truth. If they don't then they really don't value you as a human being. The moment you have to sell people on who you are is the moment you let yourself believe that every good thing you have ever done or accomplished was invisible to the world. And, it is not!
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Shannon L. Alder
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The sorrow of losing what we love is nothing to the torment of having it present but denied us.
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Martin Boyd (A Difficult Young Man (Langton Quartet, #2))
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He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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Boyd K. Packer
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Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God as a radical alternative to all versions of the kingdom of the world, whether they declare themselves to be "under God" or not.
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Gregory A. Boyd (The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church)
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I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
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Brandon Boyd
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True learning only occurs when you love the subject you are studying and then the acquiring of knowledge is effortless because it is also a pleasure.
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William Boyd (Any Human Heart)
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Things we cannot solve, we must survive.
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Boyd K. Packer
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The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
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Boyd K. Packer
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Sin looked over at Boyd through sleepy looking, heavy lidded eyes. "CΓ‘llate la boca, blanquito." Hearing Sin speak Spanish didn't help any; he sounded especially sexy when he was drawling those words fluidly in his low, velvety voice. "What does that mean?" he asked, half with an edge and half just curious. Full lips turned up into a small smirk and Sin raised an eyebrow at him before turning back to the window. "It's a secret." "Putain de beau gosse," Boyd muttered under his breath in mild annoyance, flipping forward several pages.
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Santino Hassell (Evenfall: Volume 2: Director's Cut (In the Company of Shadows, #1 part #2))
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Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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Boyd K. Packer
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I ain't affraid to let it out, i'm not affraid to take that fall, but i found beyond all doubt, you say more by saying nothing at all.
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Brandon Boyd
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What do you want?” Boyd whispered. β€œYouβ€”
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Ais (Evenfall: Volume 1: Director's Cut (In the Company of Shadows, #1 part #1))
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Damn, I know. I remember your mountains of books. I want to build you a library." Jack lowered his mouth and kissed me. I swallowed as emotion clogged my throat. He might as well have asked me to marry him.
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Natasha Boyd (Forever, Jack (Butler Cove, #2))
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I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?
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Brandon Boyd (White Fluffy Clouds : Found Inspiration Moving Forward)
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I've survived a winter in Siberia when I was ten." "What were you doing in a Siberia at ten years old?" Boyd asked dubiously. "Searching for Santa Claus" (Sin)
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Santino Hassell (Evenfall (In the Company of Shadows, #1))
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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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Boyd K. Packer
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We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
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Boyd K. Packer
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We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.
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William Boyd (Any Human Heart)
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Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.
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Boyd K. Packer
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Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
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Boyd K. Packer
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He'd more than achieved his goal; as usual Boyd had the ability to completely blow his mind. If insanity had a temporary cure, its name would be Boyd's Blowjob. He could open his own store full of home remedies; it'd give the term 'Head Shop' a whole new meaning.
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Santino Hassell (Afterimage (In the Company of Shadows, #2))
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Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
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Boyd K. Packer
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If I'd known you were in my future, I would have chosen differently.
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Natasha Boyd (Eversea (Butler Cove, #1))
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The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.
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William Boyd (Brazzaville Beach)
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Many of us have set out on the path of enlightenment. We long for a release of self-hood in some kind of mystical union with all things. But that moment of epiphanyβ€”when we finally see the whole pattern and sense our place in the cosmic webβ€”can be a crushing experience from which we never fully recover. Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. You can not turn away. Your destiny is bound to the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors. To seek enlightenment is to seek annihilation, rebirth, and the taking up of burdens. You must come prepared to touch and be touched by each and every thing in heaven and hell. I am One with the Universe and it hurts.
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Andrew Boyd (Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe)
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How did he look at me?" I whispered, suddenly craving validation of Jack's feelings from anyone but myself and my subjective imagination. Joey sighed, resigned. "Like you were the last chopper out of Baghdad, the last IV in the field hospital, the last funnel cake at the fair. Jesus, I don't know.
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Natasha Boyd (Eversea (Butler Cove, #1))
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What am I, your wife?' Boyd asked him, highly amused. Sin seemed to consider that for a moment. 'You would need to exchange bodies with my new boss for that. You can be my slave instead.' Boyd could not help a startled laugh at that. 'I don't know if I like the idea of being your slave,' he informed him with one eyebrow arched in challenge. 'The very nature of that relationship would imply I get no compensation and I just can't agree to that.' 'You get to be in my presence. That should be sufficient compensation.
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Santino Hassell (Evenfall (In the Company of Shadows, #1))
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Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary - it is the respective proportion of those two categories that make that life appear interesting or humdrum.
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William Boyd (Any Human Heart)
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Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind
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Brandon Boyd (White Fluffy Clouds : Found Inspiration Moving Forward)
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It terrifies me, the fragility of these moments in our lives.
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William Boyd (Any Human Heart)
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Reverence invites Revelation
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Boyd K. Packer
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You have a habit of carrying me up stairs". I laughed nervously as he effortlessly ascended. "I'm part caveman, you know, I can't help it. Something about you brings it out in me.
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Natasha Boyd (Eversea (Butler Cove, #1))
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We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.
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William Boyd (Any Human Heart)
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We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting?
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Noah Boyd (Agent X (Steve Vail, #2))
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Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with β€˜Thy will be done’ (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).
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Boyd K. Packer
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Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)
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William Boyd (Any Human Heart)
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I felt shocked and then saddened. life does this to you sometimes - leads you up a path and then drops you in the shit, to mix a metaphor.
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William Boyd (Any Human Heart)
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Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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Boyd K. Packer
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He was like a bright and beautiful rogue planet. He pulled the entire galaxy into a gravitational wobble until he got close enough to suck you in and tilt your axis head over heels.
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Natasha Boyd (Eversea (Butler Cove, #1))
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It occurred to me that the moment in space and time before lips touch, the small exquisite sting of wanting, a beat of thirst, of yearning, was the most underrated part of kissing. There should be sonnets and epic poems written about the space before a kiss, and the thrilling rush that comes with the moment of contact.
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Natasha Boyd (Forever, Jack (Butler Cove, #2))
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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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Boyd K. Packer
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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Boyd K. Packer
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Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
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Boyd K. Packer
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There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
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Boyd K. Packer
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There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.
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William Boyd (Any Human Heart)
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Now, my intention was to drink just enough to dull the senses, but intentions should never be mixed with alcohol.
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Kirt J. Boyd (The Last Stop (The Last Stop Retirement Community Series))
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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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Boyd K. Packer
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Floating in this cosmic jacuzzi, we are all like frogs oblivious to the water starting to boil. No one flinches. We all float face-down.
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Brandon Boyd
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The most important thing in life is to be free to do things. There are only two ways to insure that freedom β€” you can be rich or you can you reduce your needs to zero.
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John Boyd
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Decisions without actions are pointless. Actions without decisions are reckless.
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John Boyd
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The way I feel about you was never a decision. It just was. I was made to love you. I never fell, I was already there. From the very first moment.
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Natasha Boyd (Forever, Jack (Butler Cove, #2))
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Maybe we should go by tube', he said. A taxi'll come', she said. 'I'm in no hurry'. She remembered something a woman in Paris had told her once. A woman in her forties, much married, elegant, a little world-weary. There is nothing easier in this world, this woman had claimed, than getting a man to kiss you. Oh really? Eva had said, so how do you do that? Just stand close to a man, the woman has said, very close, as close as you can without touching - he will kiss you in one minute or two. It's inevitable. For them it's like an instinct - they can't resist. Infaillible. So Eva stood close to Romer in the doorway of the shop on Frith Street as he shooted and waved at the passing cars moving down the dark street, hoping one of them might be a taxi. We're out of luck', he said, turning, to find Eva standing very close to him, her face lifted. I'm in no hurry', she said. He reached for her and kissed her.
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William Boyd (Restless)
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Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.
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Boyd Norton (Serengeti: The Eternal Beginning)
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There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression... We have yet to become fluent in the language -and music- of the wild.
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Boyd Norton (Serengeti: The Eternal Beginning)
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Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.
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Boyd K. Packer
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Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.
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William Boyd (The Blue Afternoon)
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However long your stay on this small planet lasts, and whatever happens during it, the most important thing is that-from time to time-you feel life's sweet caress.
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William Boyd (Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay)
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If I turn into another, dig me up from under what is covering the better me
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Brandon Boyd
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When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.
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Boyd Rice (NO)
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Hold your dreams tight, my friend. Share them with no one. And when the naysayers and the scoffers of the world aren't paying attention, spring it on them fully formed and laugh and dance while they grasp desperately for a hand-hold with which to drag you down.
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Kirt J. Boyd (The Last Stop (The Last Stop Retirement Community Series))
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If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be broken. Try breaking the law of gravity. Now that’s a law. Laws made by man are rules reflecting the current status of his moral codes. As he alters and whittles away his morality, casting bits and pieces aside, his codes change to reflect it.
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Boyd Rice (NO)
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Why does the sea induce these feelings of transcendence in us? Is it because an unobstructed view of overarching sky meeting endlessly stirring water is as close as we can come on this earth to a visual symbol of the infinite?
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William Boyd (Any Human Heart)
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Those were the years when I was truly happy. Knowing that is both a blessing and a curse. It's good to acknowledge that you found true happiness in your life - in that sense your life has not been wasted. But to admit that you will never be happy like that again is hard.
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William Boyd (Any Human Heart)
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Why did he always have to be the one left behind? Why did he always have to be the one to gather the broken pieces and glue them back together, a mockery of what he'd once been? Why did he always have to suffer through the lossβ€”that gaping, wrenching loss that sucked him up, ripped him apart, and carelessly threw him aside?
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Ais (Fade (In the Company of Shadows, #4))
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He looked in front of him again, towards the man he had been talking to, but no one was there. Boyd blinked in surprise and stared at the shadows. It was a dead end alley with the only exit past Boyd and the walls of the surrounding buildings were straight up with no way to climb them. Where the hell did he go? Boyd hadn't heard even a whisper of movement. Granted, there was the commotion behind him, but that shouldn't have mattered. Boyd didn't spend much time on it, though. He just shook his head and muttered to himself in Kadin's drawl, "The fuck is he, the Mexican Batman?
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Ais (Evenfall (In the Company of Shadows, #1))
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Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of its order; humanity preaches an all-pervasive equality and freely hands-out unearned "rights" in an attempt to make its doctrine a living reality. In short: humanity is Democratic, nature is Fascist.
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Boyd Rice (Standing In Two Circles: The Collected Works Of Boyd Rice)
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This is a roll call! SEAN BELL! Then she followed with β€œAbsent again today! OSCAR GRANT! Absent again today! REKIA BOYD! Absent again today! RAMARLEY GRAHAM!” She paused, and at that point the rest of us knew exactly what to do. β€œAbsent again today!” β€œAIYANA JONES!” β€œAbsent again today!” β€œFREDDIE GRAY!” β€œAbsent again today!” β€œMICHAEL BROWN!” β€œAbsent again today!” β€œTAMIR RICE!” β€œAbsent again today!” β€œERIC GARNER!” β€œAbsent again today!” β€œTARIKA WILSON!” β€œAbsent again today!” And Spoony kept feeding Berry the papers, one after another, as she continued to read down the list of unarmed black people killed by the police.
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Jason Reynolds (All American Boys)
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Tiger, one day you will come to a fork in the road and you’re going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. He raised his hand and pointed. β€œIf you go that way you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and you will get good assignments.” Then Boyd raised his other hand and pointed in another direction. β€œOr you can go that way and you can do something- something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself. If you decide you want to do something, you may not get promoted and you may not get the good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won’t have to compromise yourself. You will be true to your friends and to yourself. And your work might make a difference. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That’s when you will have to make a decision. To be or to do? Which way will you go?
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John Boyd
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Don't shrink from nature's brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect its strength, its wisdom, its brutality and its all-encompassing power. The highest law has always been, and shall be, nature; and the greatest wisdom forever lives in and through nature's eternal Fascism.
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Boyd Rice (Standing In Two Circles: The Collected Works Of Boyd Rice)
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While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields. Outstanding introverted leaders, such as Charles Darwin, Maurie Curie, Patrick White and Arthur Boyd, who have created either new fields of thought or rearranged existing knowledge, have spent long periods of their lives in solitude. Hence leadership does not only apply in social situations, but also occurs in more solitary situations such as developing new techniques in the arts, creating new philosophies, writing profound books and making scientific breakthroughs.
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Janet Farrall
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In that moment, he wanted Sin for Sinβ€”for the quiet of his breath and the unspoken words in his eyes. It was little of physical attraction and everything of emotional. He wanted to just hold Sin without the body needing to be involved other than strong arms and a comforting heartbeat. The reminder of the peace that was so long gone now it felt a lifetime had passed.
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Ais (Fade (In the Company of Shadows, #4))
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Consider these questions: Did Jesus ever suggest by word of example that we should aspire to acquire, let alone take over, the power of Caesar? Did Jesus spend any time and energy trying to improve, let alone dominate, the reigning government of his day? Did he ever word to pass laws against the sinners he hunt out with and ministered to? Did he worry at all about ensuring that his rights and the religious rights of his followers were protected? Does any author in the New Testament remotely hint that engaging in this sort of activity has anything to do with the kingdom of God? The answer to all these questions is, of course, no.
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Gregory A. Boyd (The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church)
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Participants in the kingdom of the world trust the power of the sword to control behavior; participants of the kingdom of God trust the power of self-sacrificial love to transform hearts. The kingdom of the world is concerned with preserving law and order by force; the kingdom of God is concerned with establishing the rule of God through love. The kingdom of the world is centrally concerned with what people do; the kingdom of God is centrally concerned with how people are and what they can become.The kingdom of the world is characterized by judgment; the kingdom of God is characterized by outrageous, even scandalous, grace.
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Gregory A. Boyd (The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church)
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In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true, it is spiritually unsafe to attend public schools. Look back over the history of education to the turn of the century and the beginning of the educational philosophies, pragmatism and humanism were the early ones, and they branched out into a number of other philosophies which have led us now into a circumstance where our schools are producing the problems that we face.
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Boyd K. Packer
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The pleasures of my life here are simple – simple, inexpensive and democratic. A warm hill of Marmande tomatoes on a roadside vendor’s stall. A cold beer on a pavement table of the CafΓ© de France – Marie ThΓ©rΓ¨se inside making me a sandwich au camembert. Munching the knob of a fresh baguette as I wander back from Sainte-Sabine. The farinaceous smell of the white dust raised by a breeze from the driveway. A cuckoo sounding the perfectly silent woods beyond the meadow. A huge grey, cerise, pink, orange and washed-out blue of a sunset seen from my rear terrace. The drilling of the cicadas at noon – the soft dialing-tone of the crickets at dusk slowly gathers. A good book, a hammock and a cold, beaded bottle of blanc sec. A rough red wine and steak frites. The cool, dark, shuttered silence of my bedroom – and, as I go to sleep, the prospect that all this will be available to me again, unchanged, tomorrow.
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William Boyd (Any Human Heart)
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This is our part in spiritual war. We proclaim Christ's truth by praying it, speaking it and (undoubtedly most importantly) by demonstrating it. We are not to accept with sere pious resignation the evil aspects of our world as "coming from a father's hand." Rather, following the example of our Lord and Savior, and going forth with the confidence that he has in principle already defeated his (and our) foes, we are to revolt against the evil aspects of our world as coming from the devil's hand. Our revolt is to be broad--as broad as the evil we seek to confront, and as broad as the work of the cross we seek to proclaim. Wherever there is destruction, hated, apathy, injustice, pain or hopelessness, whether it concerns God's creation, a structural feature of society, or the physical, psychological or spiritual aspect of an individual, we are in word and deed to proclaim to the evil powers that be, "You are defeated." As Jesus did, we proclaim this by demonstrating it.
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Gregory A. Boyd (God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict)