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“We are straying from the path of salvation, exactly as religious leaders feared we might but not for sin or corruption, as they imagined we might. We are straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in the belonging. We’re straying from the path of salvation -but not for the love of vice and wickedness as you contemptuously imagined we might. We’re straying from the path of salvation for love of the world, as you never once dreamed in a thousand years of dreaming.”
― Daniel Quinn, The Story of B

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“Proud of you, Rudy. Listen, I just received an email from Colonel Scott regarding Colonel Westerdam. Here’s the original and a copy. Some interesting information for you, and the original needs filing.”
― Behcet Kaya, Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel

tags: drama, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, fiction, intrigue, mystery, unpredictable

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“This sounds admirable! I do so much admire what you are doing. Using this wonderful old house.”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

tags: alone, haunted, hostile, illusion, mystery, sadness, tragedy, trickery, unusual, vatican-archives

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“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

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“That lame man you saw-- is he grateful now? Is it worth it to get on his feet and spend the rest of his life dragging burdens like a mule? . . . It's not much of a world, is it? Is it worth trying to bring Leah back into it?"

Thacia stood still in the road. "Oh, Daniel-- yes! If only I could make you see, somehow, that it is!"

"All this--" she exclaimed, the sweep of her arm including the deepening blue of the sky, the shining lake in the distance, the snow-covered mountain far to the north. "So much! You must look at it all, Daniel, not just at the unhappy things.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow

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