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![The Collected Short Works, 1907-1919 [Paperback] [2009] (Auth... by Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1696915327l/127275612._SY75_.jpg "The Collected Short Works, 1907-1919 [Paperback] [2009] (Auth... by Bess Streeter Aldrich")
“We younger ones began to see that we knew things that never had not been known.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.”
― Letters and Papers from Prison
― Letters and Papers from Prison
“...this country would always be populated with presences and absences, presences of absences, the living and the dead. The world as it is would always be a reminder of the world that was, and of the world that is to come.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
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