Aaron Hand > Recent Status Updates

“Nobody’s holy.” 558

“All great and precious things are lonely.” 520

“Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.” 498

“Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.” 475

“Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.” 431

More about Liza on Heaven, 291: “… She would find something to do in Heaven. There must be something to take up one’s time—some clouds to darn, some weary wings to rub with liniment. Maybe the collars of the robes needed turning now and then, and when you come right down to it, she couldn’t believe that in Heaven there would not be cobwebs in some corner to be knocked down with a cloth-covered broom.” 2/2

About Liza, p. 291 (Her view of Heaven): “And she looked forward to Heaven as a place where clothes did not get dirty and where food did not have to be cooked and dishes washed. Privately there were some things in Heaven of which she did not quite approve. There was too much singing, and she didn’t see how even the Elect could survive for very long the celestial laziness which was promised. 1/2”

Samuel to Adam, p. 265: “Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers. Liza wears a Bible down evenly.”

P. 262 “An unbelieved truth can hurt much more than a lie.”

Eliza on p. 291. “She had no love of places. A place was only a resting stage on the way to Heaven. She did not like work for itself, but she did it because it was there to be done.”