He went home, sobbing against the steering wheel of his van. And at one o’clock in the morning, with a storm coming in, he sat in the living room armchair and drank a last beer of the night, staring at the blank screen of the television.
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“An alphabet, like a life, is a finite set of shapes. With it, one can produce almost anything.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“Grace to live at all—none of us did anything to deserve it. Being born. We spend our lives trying to figure out how to pay back the debt of being. And to whom we might pay it.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“Where does all our effort go? It’s hard not to envy the monsters when you see how good they have it. And how unbothered they are at being monsters.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
50 books to read before you die
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These are the named books: 1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien 2 1984 by George Orwell 3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4 The Gra ...more
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