“We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which it must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness, and misery. For”
― Odd Thomas
― Odd Thomas
“...but what grieved him most was his inability to love these people as Christ had loved them.”
― Silence
― Silence
“The fault of this country is the want of measure in political life. Flat acquiescence in illegality, followed by sanguinary reaction—that, senores, is not the way to a stable and prosperous future.”
― Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard
― Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard
“Americans,’” he said, quoting his wife’s letter to the Times, “‘are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.”
― Cat's Cradle
― Cat's Cradle
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