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Grace and wonder come from heartache. Newt had said that once, and she was beginning to realize how true it was.
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“You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”
― Brighton Rock
― Brighton Rock
“There was a star danced, and under that was I born.”
― Much Ado About Nothing
― Much Ado About Nothing
“I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of people who have no personal interest in us, in the vain hope of finding that perhaps they may have just a little after all.”
― Excellent Women
― Excellent Women
“Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.”
― Excellent Women
― Excellent Women
“I wondered that she should waste so much energy fighting over a little matter like wearing hats in chapel, but then I told myself that, after all, life was like that for most of us -- the small unpleasantness rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.”
― Excellent Women
― Excellent Women
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