“Alexander looked into the barrel of one of the guns. He blinked.
O God, please look after Tania all alone in the world.”
― Tatiana and Alexander
O God, please look after Tania all alone in the world.”
― Tatiana and Alexander
“It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle.
For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.”
― Inheritance
For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.”
― Inheritance
“I swam through the thick, smelly, greyish ocean of pressure toward nowhere.”
― The Taste of Despair
― The Taste of Despair
“You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
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“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power. … But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. (“A National Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer.” Proclamation March 30, 1863)”
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