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I Who Have Never Known Men

by Jacqueline Harpman

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“That people think of us when we’re not around, that they go out of their way to do little things simply because they hope to please us, we sometimes take for granted. They may not always be matters of great inconvenience, these small acts of consideration, but they add up to a great deal.”
― Jonathan Evison, The Heart of Winter

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“that singular source that by its very nature is opposed to congregation: the self, that flawed and miserable embodiment of the irrefutable loneliness that is being human, the condition that accounts for our desperate yearning toward any connection that might save us. “So, let us strive to understand and encourage one another, truly,” concluded Pastor Persun.”
― Jonathan Evison, The Heart of Winter

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“To live fully was to recognize and acknowledge the tiniest of beauties, those ever-present, immutable though often elusive truths, pure and simple as a raindrop on a daisy.”
― Jonathan Evison, The Heart of Winter

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“Like all institutions, a marriage requires maintaining, and amending, for it is more than a binding commitment, it is a process, one that demands participation, a willingness to absorb, to accept, to reassess. Ruth didn’t need a marriage counselor to tell her any of that, she’d learned it in the trenches, and was still learning after twenty-six years. After the vows, and the bouquets, and the trip to Honolulu, marriage was mostly work.”
― Jonathan Evison, The Heart of Winter

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“What made life truly precious could not be measured by achievement, or even service. To live fully was not an obligation or an act of faith, it wasn’t a state of being at all, but a capacity, a willingness to engage the smallest and most unexpected aspects of being alive, to remain curious and open to the unforeseen and hitherto unrecognizable. …To live fully was to recognize and acknowledge the tiniest of beauties, those ever present, immutable though often elusive truths, pure and simple as a raindrop on a daisy.”
― Jonathan Evison, The Heart of Winter

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