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“There were times when, even in that sinking parish on the furthermost edge of nowhere, he had encountered patients of such fortitude in the face of suffering that he was forced to agree with the poet who said that, if seen, the human soul would cover the earth.”
― Time of the Child
― Time of the Child
“For what it was, was a thing absurd to say aloud, for at every minute and in every place on the planet it was a given. And yet, there it was, constricting his throat and drying his lips, the understanding that he was part of humanity.”
― Time of the Child
― Time of the Child
“Although invisible to Church and State, it was women who knitted the country together, and in Faha, on Sunday morning after mass, you could see the needles.”
― Time of the Child
― Time of the Child
“How was she still awake, still standing, he wondered, and not for the first time considered that God's first mistake was starting with a man.”
― Time of the Child
― Time of the Child
“The noise of the street rose, many-voiced, in the music of congregation. Acquaintances were mutual and threw a wide ambit; besides neighbors and relations immediate, there were cousins, cousins of cousins, cousins of neighbors, cousins of neighbors' cousins, and their cousins, and their neighbors, all of which proved blood was a river without beginning or end.”
― Time of the Child
― Time of the Child
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