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Arlene Selman said:
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It took me a chapter to get into this book. Firethorn's life is hard. The author puts her through so many ordeals and she lives in a harsh world. There are so many plot twists, it makes for very compelling reading.
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“Love is the only prayer I know.”
― The Mists of Avalon
― The Mists of Avalon
“You have the right to live your own life, in your own way, and there is no wrong way.”
― The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery
― The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery
“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Fictions are useful so long as they are taken as fictions. They are then
simply ways of "figuring" the world which we agree to follow so that
we can act in cooperation, as we agree about inches and hours, numbers
and words, mathematical systems and languages. If we have no
agreement about measures of time and space, I would have no way of
making a date with you at the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth
Avenue at 3 P.M. on Sunday, April 4.”
― The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
simply ways of "figuring" the world which we agree to follow so that
we can act in cooperation, as we agree about inches and hours, numbers
and words, mathematical systems and languages. If we have no
agreement about measures of time and space, I would have no way of
making a date with you at the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth
Avenue at 3 P.M. on Sunday, April 4.”
― The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“Do you believe in a future everlasting life?
No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.”
― Demons
No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.”
― Demons
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