But it seems that sword pierced Christ so that we always have a future. Even one different than planned.” I have been thinking about this ever since he said it. And I confess that the grace my mother would speak of with such feeling took on
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“She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening
“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate. ”
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“I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.”
― The One and Only Ivan
― The One and Only Ivan
“And I decided that there might be things I would never understand, no matter how hard I tried. Though try I would.
And that there would be people who would never hear my one small voice, no matter what I had to say.
But then a better thought occurred, and this was the one I carried away with me that day: If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could? (p228)”
― Wolf Hollow
And that there would be people who would never hear my one small voice, no matter what I had to say.
But then a better thought occurred, and this was the one I carried away with me that day: If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could? (p228)”
― Wolf Hollow
“I imagine all wars look the same to those who die in them.”
― Wonder Woman: Warbringer
― Wonder Woman: Warbringer
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