odd-thomas

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

In even a clear heart, some righteous acts of the harder kind can stir up a sediment of guilt, but that is not a bad thing. If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and a reasonable measure of guilt guards against corruption.

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass.

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.

...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved...

I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.

Denial couldn't be maintained.

...he looked as if nothing hard in the world had touched him...

Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.

I'm not much for parties. Sometimes you have to wear a funny hat, sometimes they expect you to eat sushi, which is like eating bait. And there's always some totally drunk girl who thinks you're smitten by her, when what you're really wondering is if she'll vomit on your shirt or instead on your shoes.

Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting

I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.

Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.