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'I feel so frightened of being hurt- not of suffering, which I know I can handle, but the indignity of suffering, the indignity of being open to it.'

'Could it be that easy? We just have to weep and prostate ourselves and God forgives everything? But maybe it's not easy at all - maybe to weep and prostate ourselves with genuine sincerity is the hardest thing we could ever learn how to do. I feel certain I don't understand how to do it.'

'But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch.'

‘There is really nothing more to say— except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.’

why does, my favourite girl ever, Casey Peabody have to endure so much?

"Even in memory she will find this moment unbearably intense, and she's aware of this now, while it's happening. She has never believed herself fit to be loved by any person. But now she has a new life, of which this is the first moment, and even after many years have passed she will still think: Yes, that was it, the beginning of my life."

“Pitiful that a great amount of my pain disappeared when someone paid a bit of attention to it.”

re-read of one of my favourite books!