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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")
“...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
“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
“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
“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
“What can’t be helped must be endured.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
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