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“You have to believe me without proof. That's what faith is — believing without proof.'
They got up from the bank of stones. It was getting late, the shadows lay cool and lengthened on the grass and the tops of the trees had the stillness around them that means the end of the day and its liquidation in the setting sun. They retraced their steps back to the house where his car was parked, and when they passed through the blighted orchard, he picked up an apple for her and she ate it. She didn't even have to look; she knew it would be whole, without worms or decay.”
― Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, At the End of the Century: The Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“We're boys. That's what we're supposed to do.”
― Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps: A Novel

“He's a black man in this world," Major has scolded me. "You got him used to sweetness when life gon' be tart.”
― Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, The Revisioners

“Nobody warned me about this part. When I envisioned my trip, I imagined exciting adventures, exotic locales, a jet-set lifestyle. I never thought grief and doubt would climb into my backpack and come with me. I pictured standing at the top of the Sun Gate, looking down at Machu Picchu, without ever thinking about the steps it would take to get there. This is the curse of wanderlust, when the postcard image becomes a brutal reality.”
― Maggie Downs, Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime