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Thieving Forest by Martha Conway

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Unexpectedly, tears come into Susanna’s eyes. Here are these people, she thinks, practically starving, with nothing, and yet look at them dancing, making music, full of joy. God himself could not help but look down on them with every ...more

Deanna’s Quotes

“No kindness is ever wasted, nor can we ever tell how much good may come of it.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Sea of Trolls

tags: kindness, wisdom

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“For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

tags: death, life, listening

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“She ached: oh, how she ached. Her soul was like one big bruise.”
― Alison Croggon, The Naming

tags: beautiful-writing, hurt, soul

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“Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

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“To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

tags: balance, equilibrium, evil, good, knowledge, taoism

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