Forbidden Quotes

“It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.”
― Ted Dekker, Forbidden

“Wage war on death. Live for love.”
― Ted Dekker, Forbidden

“Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!”
― Ted Dekker, Forbidden

“But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.”
― Ted Dekker, Forbidden

“But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.”
― Ted Dekker, Forbidden

“You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.”
― Ted Dekker, Forbidden

“Yes, I drank some of the ancient blood and it changed me. If I'm right...If the vellum is right, the world is dead. Everyone! But I was brought back to life by the blood.”
― Ted Dekker, Forbidden

“In the space of so many scant hours, a new world had lifted the hem of her skirts before him. A world of seething pleasures and sweaty rage.”
― Ted Dekker, Forbidden

“Chaos is life! As much as Order is death.”
― Ted Dekker, Forbidden

“Humanity is dying. The fact is clear to me: Though blood flows through their veins, those infected by Legion are no longer human but a fear-filled race of dead.”
― Ted Dekker, Forbidden