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“And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way to heaven. The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of their bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.”
― The Lovely Bones
― The Lovely Bones
“If our best-educated citizens have no idea how to answer these basic questions, we will struggle to build a democracy that can solve the problems we face, whether they are what to do about climate change, the world’s poor, the problems of Australia’s Indigenous people, or the prospect of a future in which we can genetically modify our offspring. An education in the humanities is as valuable today as it was in Plato’s time.”
― Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
― Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.”
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“How could a peacock lust for a lion?”
― Shadowfever
― Shadowfever
“I had heard the nails being driven into the nails of her coffin, but I couldn't adjust to the fact that she had returned to nothingness.”
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