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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― The New Life
― The New Life
“Not for her the domestic toil that “crushes and degrades women” (Lenin’s words). Not for her nursery drudgery, so “barbarously unproductive, petty, nerve-racking, stultifying” (Lenin again). No, under socialism, society would assume all such burdens, eventually eradicating the nuclear family. “The real emancipation of women, real communism, will begin,” predicted Lenin in 1919, “only where and when an all-out struggle begins … against … petty … housekeeping.” In”
― Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
― Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
“If sex “is about persons being bodies together,”8 then chastity is about the right bodies being together at the right time. Chastity, then, is “not the mere absence of sex but an active conforming of one’s body to the arc of the gospel.”
― On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
― On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
“Free to be bad. Oh, how I’d like to argue with God about this choice. But how could I? When I choose it all the time, and when I want the choice to be mine to make.”
― Becoming Mrs. Lewis
― Becoming Mrs. Lewis
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