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“When you're sixteen a body like this is free; when you're forty it's a full-time occupation.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.”
― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted
“The city centre was still crawling with Christmas shoppers looking to add to their already burgeoning piles of gifts. To Scott they were like ants at a picnic, teeming from store to store, trailing oversized carrier bags and infants behind them as they went. Scott felt alien in this environment; pulling up his hood he hurried through the crowds, dodging pushchairs, lit cigarettes and charity collection tins.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
“Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.”
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“whether we had best have our meeting or not; and whether it might not be better for me to depart, lest they should take me and have me before the justice, and after that send me to prison (for he knew better than I what spirit they were of, living by them): to whom I said, No, by no means, I will not stir, neither will I have the meeting dismissed for this. Come, be of good cheer; let us not be daunted; our cause is good, we need not be ashamed of it; to preach God’s Word, is so good a work, that we shall be well rewarded, if we suffer for that; or to this purpose -”
― Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
― Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
Rudy’s 2024 Year in Books
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9 friends
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