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“This faith...is not like a deed to a house in which one may live with full rights of possession. It is more like a kit of tools with which a man may build him a house. The tools will be worth just what he does with them. When he lays them down, they will have no value until he takes them up again.”
― The Robe
― The Robe
“This world we live in is confusing, overwhelming and painful because he has a condition known as autism.”
― Forever, Christian
― Forever, Christian
“What better hiding place for the true Templar than in the crowd of his caricatures?”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passing of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark... I hoard all these letters like treasure.”
― The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
― The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
“Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.”
― Harriet the Spy
― Harriet the Spy
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