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'He believed we would love god more if we knew the letters to read by. I don't know that. What I know is there is magic in learning.'

'The women look away from my eyes the way you say I am to do with the bears so they will not come close to love and play.'

'She says there is only one fool in this place and she is not it so beware.'

'And a few, like herself, after a mutually loving relationship, became like children when the man was gone.

'What shocked Job into humility and renewed fidelity was the message a female Job would have known and heard every minute of her life.'

'But then Job was a man. Invisibility was intolerable to men.'

'Shallow believers preferred a shallow god.'

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'Well, Lina mused, deathbreath was a prime creator, a great changer of minds and collector of hearts.'

'Lina picked up the mirror thinking, No please. Don't look.
Never seek out your own face even when well, lest the reflection drink your soul.'

'In the best of times the girl dragged misery like a tail.'

'That God hated idleness most of all, so staring off into space to weep for a mother or a playmate was to court damnation.'

'The last few years he seemed moody, less gentle, but when he decided to kill the trees and replace them with a profane monument to himself, he was cheerful every waking moment.'

'Caring for ill or recalcitrant labor was enough, they said, for canonization.'