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“The place was very like the world: overcrowded with lust and crime and unhappy love, it stank to heaven; but he realized that after all it was possible to find peace there, when you knew for certain that the time was short.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“Presumably she had an idea--women were appallingly practical: they built new plans at once out of the ruins of the old.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“That's the thing about Homes. After you lose the things that make them worthy of a capital H, all you're left with is an empty, lowercase house.”
― Jessica Brody, The Chaos of Standing Still

“words like 'mystery' and 'soul' and 'the source of life' came in over and over again, as they sat on the bed talking, with nothing to do and nothing to believe and nowhere better to go.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory