“Ciabattari is a master of transformation as she gives these stories of loss, woe, crisis and collapse the salutary and sometimes bracing pleasures of plain good fiction."--Kirkus Reviews”
― Stealing the Fire: Stories
― Stealing the Fire: Stories
“A really good writer is hard to find and can be expensive. A bad writer is easy to find and can be really, really expensive!”
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“The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.”
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“Everything on our earth—both the simple and the complicated questions, both the little human problems and the challenges of finding the great path to God, all the secrets of the past, the present, and the future ages—all can be resolved only by such mysterious, ineffably beautiful and omnipotent humility. And even if we cannot understand its truth and meaning, and even if it seems for now that we are not ready for this mysterious and all-powerful humility, nonetheless, that humility by itself will reveal itself to us through those incredible persons who are capable of possessing it.”
― Everyday Saints and Other Stories
― Everyday Saints and Other Stories
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