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“Love is divine only and difficult always.”
― Paradise
― Paradise
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
“How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.”
― Paradise
― Paradise
“It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.”
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“But can't you even imagine what it must feel like to have a true home? I don't mean heaven. I mean a real earthly home. Not some fortress you bought and built up and have to keep everybody locked in or out. A real home. Not some place you went to and invaded and slaughtered people to get. Not some place you claimed, snatched because you got the guns. Not some place you stole from the people living there, but your own home, where if you go back past your great-great-grandparents, past theirs, and theirs, past the whole of Western history, past the beginning of organized knowledge, past pyramids and poison bows, on back to when rain was new, before plants forgot they could sing and birds thought they were fish, back when God said Good! Good!-- there, right there where you know your own people were born and lived and died. Imagine that, Pat. That place. Who was God talking to if not to my people living in my home?"
"You preaching, Reverend."
"No, I'm talking to you, Pat. I'm talking to you.”
― Paradise
"You preaching, Reverend."
"No, I'm talking to you, Pat. I'm talking to you.”
― Paradise
Annabelle’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Annabelle’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
117 books
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9 friends
252 books
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158 friends
1,606 books
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59 friends
165 books
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11 friends
416 books
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12 friends
1,332 books
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9,805 friends
938 books
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375 friends
179 books
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26 friends
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