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Rebecca didn’t always like having such a big church family. Some were hard to love: Sister Isaacs who cried when she said her testimony and then blew her nose with a honking sound; Brother Minder who said “ain’t” and used double negatives;
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“We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.”
― The Other Hand
― The Other Hand
“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.”
― The Forgotten Garden
― The Forgotten Garden
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
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