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Den of Liars (The Devious, #1)

by Jessica S. Olson (Goodreads Author)

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The Scarlet Pimpernel (Modern Library Classics)

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The Black Death: Natural and Human Disater in Medieval Europe

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“To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible's teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn't have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense?”
― Timothy Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

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“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

tags: books, library, longing

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“What's he like?"

"I've been dying to tell you. But he's like nobody.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

tags: henry-james, the-turn-of-the-screw

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“In Heaven there will be no anguish and no duty of turning away from our earthly Beloveds. First, because we shall have turned already; from the portraits to the Original, from the rivulets to the Fountain, from the creatures He made lovable to Love Himself. But secondly, because we shall find them all in Him. By loving Him more than them we shall love them more than we now do.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: christianity, god, heaven, love, mourning

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“The present world is good, but broken and in any case incomplete; art of all kinds enables us to understand that paradox in its many dimensions. But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold—and yet if you’d never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn’t believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.”
― N.T. Wright, Simply Christian

tags: art, beauty, christianity, love, music, nt-wright, philosophy

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