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“He can’t quite picture God except as a huge ball of light with an old man’s deep voice like in the pickup truck ads on TV coming out of the ball of light dictating the way everything in Eden is supposed to work.”
― Russell Banks, Lost Memory of Skin: A Provocative Story of Moral Redemption and America's Hidden Hypocrisies

“However long your stay on this small planet lasts, and whatever happens during it, the most important thing is that-from time to time-you feel life's sweet caress.”
― William Boyd, Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay

“When I sat down beside them, their silence was lined with tenderness. We have to admire the world for not ending on us.”
― Colum McCann, TransAtlantic

“Out of town I could simply be, I could feel my self, firm and calm and unmalleable as I could not when I was in school or in any of the usual human communities that seemed to weaken or scatter me. I could sit for an hour in the rocks above the Knife River, asking for no more discourse than that water’s monotonous gabble. I was an inward child, it was true, but beyond that, I felt a contentment outside human society that I couldn’t feel within it.”
― Larry Watson, Montana 1948