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Book cover for Blessed Water (Sister Holiday Mystery #2)
We’re born liquid—drooling, pooling, supple cheeks, juicy knees. Humans are mostly water, but we can still drown. If only the water could answer all the prayers, all the questions we scream into it as we sink.
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Jean Genet
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
Jean Genet

John Gardner
“The world resists me and I resist the world.”
John Gardner, Grendel

Mo Yan
“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

Joe  Hill
“Death is a raw deal for narrative junkies.”
Joe Hill, The Fireman

Dany Laferrière
“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer

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