how can your crippled body handle the rigors of study and preaching? God’s work is the most strenuous on earth.
“How can knowing something be sinful?”
― La Belle Sauvage
― La Belle Sauvage
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“because the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.”
― La Belle Sauvage
― La Belle Sauvage
“The nigger is America's greatest asset and its biggest fear”
― Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
― Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
“Did you seriously think for one moment,” she said, sounding fierce now, “that I would let this little baby, who has been given into our care, be taken away by three strangers on the strength of a single piece of paper? Three men who practically forced their way into this holy building without any invitation? Who frightened the oldest and the least well of us with threats and weapons—yes, weapons—waving your guns in her face? Who do you think you are? What do you think this place is? The sisters have been giving care and hospitality here for eight hundred years. Think what that means. Am I going to abandon all our holy obligations because three bullies in uniform come shouldering their way in and try to frighten us? And for a helpless baby not six months old? Now go. Get out and don’t come back.”
― La Belle Sauvage
― La Belle Sauvage
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