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While daylight came we sat and looked at the black pile of ashes. We hadn’t accepted the fire; we’d been able to fight that as long as it burned. But now, in the daylight, in our tiredness, as if we’d fought all night in a dream, we
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“Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in. Lazarus obeying orders and climbing up out of the grave - now there's a miracle, and you can bet it upset a lot of folks who were standing around at the time. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of the earth.”
― Peace Like a River
― Peace Like a River
“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”
― Cry, the Beloved Country
― Cry, the Beloved Country
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Fair is whatever God wants to do.”
― Peace Like a River
― Peace Like a River
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