“Entire sections of them simply cannot be translated - the characters are legible and well-known, but when put together they do not say anything that leaves an imprint on the modern mind.""Like instructions for programming a VCR.”
“You kiss my cheek and leave a honey imprint that itchesas it dries.”
“There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.”
“Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.”
“We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It’s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark.”