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“My Aspasia. With her, he’d discovered the sweetness in life . . . and she might like to know that. He’d tell her sometime. But he knew he’d given this lovely woman what she’d wanted most, their son’s name. He leaned over to the child. “So, you’re Little Pericles.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.”
― The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
― The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
“On the Acropolis, he’d thought she’d seen too much sun for a woman but in the courtyard, under the moon, her face, neck, and arms were as pale as the moon goddess. Allowing himself to imagine it was the moon goddess leading him upward was a way of climbing to the second story.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“A certain kind of man looked at God’s own land, she thought, as she drew closer, and instead of beauty and wonder, all he saw was dollar signs.”
― The Giver of Stars
― The Giver of Stars
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Reading deeply is one of the joys of being alive in a body. Whether the reading is fiction or non-fiction, to learn, to explore, to discover, to share ...more
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Reading deeply is one of the joys of being alive in a body. Whether the reading is fiction or non-fiction, to learn, to explore, to discover, to share ...more
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