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“It was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their canny intuitions, were so much deeper: they could predict what was to come long before it came, dream it overnight, and read your mind.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“If you were the one who didn't know how to live, if you needed to be taught, we'd look away, too. We wouldn't want to know.”
― Promising Young Women
― Promising Young Women
“I like it when it’s foggy. When you can’t see into the distance. When there’s no horizon. It gives me a feeling of having time. That it’s all right not to see, not to be aware of what’s in my path.”
― The Pachinko Parlour
― The Pachinko Parlour
“Didn't you regret the life you were leading?
They didn't answer him. The sullen dogged expression was on Ronnie's face and Midge kept shifting her glance away, trying to avoid the priest's angry eyes. But they did not look like persons aware of guilt. They were merely un- easy and resentful, as if they did not want to listen. Some- times Midge looked directly at him with a bold impatience and he saw she was pretty, and remembered how she had taken the middle-aged sober man into the hotel half an hour ago.”
― Such Is My Beloved
They didn't answer him. The sullen dogged expression was on Ronnie's face and Midge kept shifting her glance away, trying to avoid the priest's angry eyes. But they did not look like persons aware of guilt. They were merely un- easy and resentful, as if they did not want to listen. Some- times Midge looked directly at him with a bold impatience and he saw she was pretty, and remembered how she had taken the middle-aged sober man into the hotel half an hour ago.”
― Such Is My Beloved
“Everyone who struggles for justice,
everyone who makes just claims in unjust surroundings
is working for God's reign,
even though not a Christian.
The church does not comprise all of God's reign;
God's reign goes beyond the church's boundaries.
The church values everything that is in tune with its struggle to set up God's reign.
A church that tries only to keep itself
pure and uncontaminated
would not be a church of God's service to people.
The authentic church is one that does not mind
conversing with prostitutes and publicans and sinners, as Christ did-
and with Marxists and those of various political movements -
in order to bring them salvation's true message.”
― The Violence Of Love
everyone who makes just claims in unjust surroundings
is working for God's reign,
even though not a Christian.
The church does not comprise all of God's reign;
God's reign goes beyond the church's boundaries.
The church values everything that is in tune with its struggle to set up God's reign.
A church that tries only to keep itself
pure and uncontaminated
would not be a church of God's service to people.
The authentic church is one that does not mind
conversing with prostitutes and publicans and sinners, as Christ did-
and with Marxists and those of various political movements -
in order to bring them salvation's true message.”
― The Violence Of Love
Martha’s 2025 Year in Books
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