Patrick Shea

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read‎ (254)
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maybe-s‎ (4)

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Patrick’s Notes & Highlights

The Overstory by Richard Powers

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Patrick’s Quotes

“This winter come”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

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“remember—if your church isn’t telling you to love your enemies but keeps telling you who your enemies are, you’re not really in a church.”
― John Fugelsang, Separation of Church and Hate

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“Memories swell [like a bee sting],” he wrote. “When we first feel them in our skin there’s that breathcatching moment before knowing whether we’ll feel grief or joy.”
― Sam Wasson, The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

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“the brief white quietude among the Christmas buntings and softlit shopwindows seemed a childhood dream of the season and the snow in its soft falling sifting down evoked in the city a surcease nigh to silence.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

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“Ah yes, and something else again. Because what I am trying to tell you… What I have been trying so hard to tell you all along is simply that my father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had.”
― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World

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