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In our comfort, we have forgotten that virtue is hard. In our wealth, we have forgotten that freedom is expensive.
“And isn’t it funny, she thought, that it takes two generations to kill off a man? … First him, and then his memory. …”
― The Keepers of the House
― The Keepers of the House
“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“But the memory lingered, the lesson I have never quite been able to shake: that I would always have something to prove and that nothing but blazing brilliance would be enough to prove it.”
― Transcendent Kingdom
― Transcendent Kingdom
“Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses. It was the flutter of moth wings on glass and the promise of river nymphs in the dappled creek beds. It was the smell of oak trees on the summer evening she fell in love, and the way dawn threw itself across the cow pond and turned the water to light.”
― The Snow Child
― The Snow Child
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