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Ms. Annie said all God’s children have to take a shit, but you’d never know it from the way they treat the ones that clean it up.
“When you married someone, you promised to love every person he would be. He promised to love every person she had been. And here they were, still trying, even though the past and the future were both mysteries.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“Having come so close to losing everything, I am freed now of all fear, hesitation, and timidity, and, once revived, intend to devoutly wander the earth, imbibing, smelling, sampling, loving whomever I please; touching, tasting, standing very still among the beautiful things of this world,”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“Our grief must be defeated; it must not become our master, and make us ineffective, and put us even deeper into the ditch.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“These are the things the Lord hates. A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans. Feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.”
― Where the Lost Wander
― Where the Lost Wander
“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and put down for what they”
― Black Beauty
― Black Beauty
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