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“It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.”
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“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.”
― The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
― The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
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