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“Your attempts to bring transgressions to command attention are salutory. But as for your religious duties, remember these suspected transgressions, if real, are but the eruptions of sin. Not sin itself. Never forget that, lest you be inclined to lose your pity for human weakness. Sin is a lonely thing, a worm wrapped around the soul, shielding it from love, from joy, from communion with fellow men and with God. The sense that I am alone, that none can hear me, none can understand, that no one answers my cries, it is a sickness over which, to borrow from Bernanos, “the vast tide of divine love, that sea of living, roaring flame which gave birth to all things, passes vainly.” Your job, it seems, would be to find a crack through which some sort of communication can be made, one soul to another.”
― Phil Klay, Redeployment

“I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.”
― George MacDonald Fraser

“I remember damage. Then escape. Then adrift in a stranger's galaxy for a long, long time. But I'm safe now.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves?”
― Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion