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But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.
“We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Educated
― Educated
“No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realised exactly how much right he has to all this snobbery, and sneering, and talking about 'criminals,' as if they were apes in a forest ten thousand miles away; till he's got rid of all the dirty self-deception of talking about low types and deficient skulls; till he's squeezed out of his soul the last drop of the oil of the Pharisees; till his only hope is somehow or other to have captured one criminal, and kept him safe and sane under his own hat.”
― The Complete Father Brown
― The Complete Father Brown
“In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.”
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“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place, the dial turned just one or two degrees.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
Kathryn’s 2025 Year in Books
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