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was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
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“The longer the human soul swims in that pool of faith, soaking in the effulgence of its own dreams and longings, the more its need for rationality recedes, its very preoccupation with reality. Excuses are made for every frustration or impediment that doesn’t quite merge into the perfect blueprint of miraculous resolution already etched into one’s hopes and prayers: thus, there’s never any scope for disappointment. The person becomes blind to everything but the bewitchment of his own beliefs.”
― Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer
― Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer
“The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, they all understand the importance of that first espresso.”
― Lorenzo Searches For The Meaning Of Life
― Lorenzo Searches For The Meaning Of Life
“Missing is worse than being killed in action. Missing is a wound that doesn't heal; in it festers hope.”
― Lorenzo Searches For The Meaning Of Life
― Lorenzo Searches For The Meaning Of Life
“He stood out even then as a person not to be treated lightly, as a being with resources of spirit if not of fortune.”
― This Is Where the Serpent Lives
― This Is Where the Serpent Lives
“But fourteen hundred years of interpreting the Rule has imbued to it a suppleness, an elasticity that allows its adherents to bend, twist and crane their necks with ease, and to smile and nod without feeling guilty or sinful or deserving of a chastising thunderbolt from Heaven”
― Lorenzo Searches For The Meaning Of Life
― Lorenzo Searches For The Meaning Of Life
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