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‘The thing about books,’ she said, ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.’
“Thomas Paine had come to believe that religion was the worst form of tyranny because it pursued you through death and into eternity—something no king or despot had yet managed to do. At”
― Time's Convert
― Time's Convert
“The thing about books,’ she said, ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.”
― The Lost Bookshop
― The Lost Bookshop
“Loss keeps going, you know? It doesn’t just stop with what was taken from you. It grabs new things all the time. You think you’re up against missing the memories, all that happened, but Christ if you don’t miss all that didn’t happen even more.”
― Take What You Can Carry
― Take What You Can Carry
“When there is only you, you do not get to choose which jobs you want, you do not get to decide you are incapable of anything. There is no room for distaste or weakness. You must do it all. All of the ugliness, the sadness, the things most people can’t stand to even think about, all must live inside of you. You must be capable of everything.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“In the last decade, most of her friends—even those who’d not gone to war—had let the concept of God be beaten away in torrents of Vietnamese rain, burned in the jungles, or obliterated in a blast that claimed a village. A world of such atrocities could not be under the jurisdiction of a compassionate God, and who wanted to believe in an uncompassionate God?”
― Take What You Can Carry
― Take What You Can Carry
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