“And when they would be talking and Granma would say, “Do ye kin me, Wales?” and he would answer, “I kin ye,” it meant, “I understand ye.” To them, love and understanding was the same thing. Granma said you couldn’t love something you didn’t understand; nor could you love people, nor God, if you didn’t understand the people and God. Granpa and Granma had an understanding, and so they had a love. Granma said the understanding run deeper as the years went by, and she reckined it would get beyond anything mortal folks could think upon or explain. And so they called it “kin.” Granpa”
― The Education of Little Tree
― The Education of Little Tree
“Wish me good luck, please,” I whisper.
“On one condition,” Philemone says. “Remember, what you call luck is the meeting of opportunity and flexibility.”
I smile, weakly.
“Good luck,” she says. “Now go.”
― Brainwalker
“On one condition,” Philemone says. “Remember, what you call luck is the meeting of opportunity and flexibility.”
I smile, weakly.
“Good luck,” she says. “Now go.”
― Brainwalker
“Anything good in the briefcase?” he asked.
I smiled back at him. “Everything’s good in the briefcase, Walter.”
― Full Moon Saturday Night
I smiled back at him. “Everything’s good in the briefcase, Walter.”
― Full Moon Saturday Night
“»Y ahora una palabra de...» —¡Apáguelo! —exclamó Zerchi.”
― Cántico por Leibowitz
― Cántico por Leibowitz
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