

“It was Calzas who told me that your life is a road along which you leave many markers - points in time and places on the map. The ones in time you can only revisit in your mind, and they never change. The places can be revisited firsthand, but they're constantly changing. To keep a place the same, he said, you can no longer return to it - and then it becomes a point in time.”
― A Trip to the Stars
― A Trip to the Stars

“The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.”
― An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
― An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

“We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical”
― Cold Mountain
― Cold Mountain

“And Anne, so used to being sad that she didn’t even see beyond the end of each day, said yes.”
― Other People's Houses
― Other People's Houses

“Frances barely had room in her head for her own feelings plus a running grocery list. She felt like the Mad Hatter: No room! No room!”
― Other People's Houses
― Other People's Houses

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