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“If we are lost, God is like water, finding the unknowable path when we cannot.”
― All My Rage
― All My Rage
“And you will give yourself relief, if you live your every act in life as if it were the last,”
― Meditations: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader
― Meditations: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader
“Being humorless, she thought, was even worse than being dumb.”
― The God of the Woods
― The God of the Woods
“I’m grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“In the morning he would not have needed sleep, for all the warm odors and sights of a complete country night would have rested and slept him while his eyes were wide and his mouth, when he thought to test it, was half a smile.
And there at the bottom of the hayloft stair waiting for him, would be the incredible thing. He would step carefully down, in the pink light of early morning, so fully aware of the world that he would be afraid, and stand over the small miracle and at last bend to touch it.
A cool glass of fresh milk, and a few apples and pears laid at the foot of the steps.
This was all he wanted now. Some sign that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.
A glass of milk, an apple, a pear.”
― Fahrenheit 451
And there at the bottom of the hayloft stair waiting for him, would be the incredible thing. He would step carefully down, in the pink light of early morning, so fully aware of the world that he would be afraid, and stand over the small miracle and at last bend to touch it.
A cool glass of fresh milk, and a few apples and pears laid at the foot of the steps.
This was all he wanted now. Some sign that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.
A glass of milk, an apple, a pear.”
― Fahrenheit 451
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