“The gods looked down from their mountain and shrugged.”
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― 4 3 2 1
“He already understand that the world consisted of two realms, the visible and the invisible, and that the things he couldn't see were often more real than the things he could.”
― 4 3 2 1
― 4 3 2 1
“…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the world hurt her just as much as they hurt him and that except for the fact that she was older, there was no difference between them.”
― 4 3 2 1
― 4 3 2 1
“Ferguson was naked in that bed, too, and everything felt so good to him, so perfectly in accord with how he imagined it would feel, that for once in his life the real and the imagined were identical, absolutely and as never before once and the same thing, which had to make it the happiest moment of his life so far, he believed, since Ferguson was not someone who subscribed to the notion that desire fulfilled was desire disappointed, at least not in this case, where wanting Amy was no good without having Amy want him, and the miracle was that she did want him, and therefore desire fulfilled was in fact desire fulfilled, the chance to spend a few moments in the ephemeral kingdom of earthly grace.”
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― 4 3 2 1
“because he was a man who had suffered but because he was a man who had suffered and could still crack jokes.”
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