“Nostalgia is, by its very nature, bittersweet, the happiest memories laced with melancholy. It’s that combination, that opposition of forces, that makes it so compelling. People, places, events, times: we miss them, and there’s a pleasure in the missing and… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“A wise man once said that the best definition of insanity was performing the same action over and over again, expecting different results." Father… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“Tim looked my way again. "And how to you think you will be judged, on the day the trumpet sounds? You who have caused… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is, by its very nature, bittersweet, the happiest memories laced with melancholy. It’s that combination, that opposition of forces, that makes it so… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“chuckled. “It’s strange to talk like that, isn’t it? As if the Second Coming of Christ were Halloween, or New Year’s Eve, a finite… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“The trouble with chronic pain is that it is so easy to become accustomed to it, both mentally and physically. At first it's absolutely… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“But after seeing the people at the Barrett house, I couldn’t fool myself anymore. What Sherry had done was something of a different order… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“And that's what we'll do every day. If you or your friends spray-paint obscenities on our walls, we'll scrub them off, and the people… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“There’s a story, in the Bible—” “Not in the Bible,” he interrupted. “Apocryphal. Scholars seem to think it was added in the Middle Ages,… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“It was the hope in their faces that awakened me, that reminded me of what a gift I had received. I couldn’t downplay what… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
