“She was empty. ‘I am an object in the room,’ she had told herself. ‘That is all that I am.’ This belief spared her the agony of her own intelligence while she was a slave to the nuns.”
― Lapvona
― Lapvona
“Open up your heart,’ she said.
‘I’m afraid it’s broken.’
‘If I was knocking at your door, would you open it?’
‘I would, of course.’
‘Even if the door was broken.’
‘I would try.”
― Lapvona
‘I’m afraid it’s broken.’
‘If I was knocking at your door, would you open it?’
‘I would, of course.’
‘Even if the door was broken.’
‘I would try.”
― Lapvona
“The bandit didn't struggle or curse. He said only 'God forgive you', the same words Marek had said to him a few days earlier.”
― Lapvona
― Lapvona
“When she asked the birds what to do, they answered that they didn't know anything about love, that love was a distinctly human defect which God had created to counterbalance the power of human greed.”
― Lapvona
― Lapvona
“Since he was little, a scraped knee or a whipped back, anything to make his body hurt, felt like the hand of God upon him.”
― Lapvona
― Lapvona
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