I had spent an entire life praying for a miracle, and none had come. And now I looked at the stuffy chapel of my ancestors and saw vanity and greed, heard the call to prayer and thought of power, smelled incense and wondered at the waste of
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“Before you have children, the novelist Fay Weldon once said, you can believe you are a nice person: after you have children you understand how wars start.”
― On Balance
― On Balance
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