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“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today.”
― The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
― The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
“Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Historical Fiction Challenge 2012
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I've gone reading challenge bananas!! I've wanted to do a Historical Fiction related challenge, however nothing has been posted yet. So I decided to c ...more
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