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"He dared not love again and lose. That loss was too great, that pain too keen. The cause of his skepticism and his doubts, his attempts to eliminate natural causes in the case of Regan's seeming possession, was the fiery intensity of his yearning to be able to believe. He bowed his head and placed the consecrated Host in his mouth, where in a moment it would stick in the dryness of his throat. And of his faith."

"Soon they were leaning against a railing at the top of the steps that plunged steeply down to M Street. End of day. The burnished rays of the setting sun flames glory on the clouds of the western sky before shattering in gold and vermillion dapples on the darkening waters of the river. Once Karras met God in this sight. Long ago. Like a lover forsaken, he still kept the rendezvous."

"What a flipping relief," said Chris. "For a second there, I thought you were going to tell me the house is haunted!"

Mrs. Perrin glanced down to her, unsmiling.

"Why would I tell you a thing like that?" she asked.

"Mom, why do people have to die?"

"The question pierced her mother's soul. Oh, Rags, you too? You too? Oh no! And yet what could she tell her? Lies? No, she couldn't. She looked ar her daughter's upturned face, at her eyes misting up with tears. Had Regan sensed her thoughts? She had done it so often before. "Honey, people get tired," she told Regan tenderly."

"The comment was bleak enough to make him laugh. Out of sheer surprise, I laughed too. Twars had again mobilized at the edge of his eyelids, though these were happy ones -- you could tell by the quality of shine. Back when I had been alive and capable of crying, I'd never been able to make such fine distinctions."

"Since Church's befriending, I'd packed away my fear, fool that I was, and now it leapt back to my heart where it belonged, more painful than ever, for this fear was not for myself but for another. This, I declare to you, is the fear above all others, the field on which the least forgiving of combats are waged."

"Dying for my country meant nothing to me, but who knew? It might mean something to that pernicious bean-counter Gød."

"Truly, my boundless stupidity is something to behold."

"If no one blamed themselves for the things they could not help..." She gave him a faint smile as she turned away from the Athenaeum and led them on towards the place. "Wouldn't the whole Church go out of business?"

"In lieu of her, I had her stolen heart, the Excelsior, which would now beat in replacement of my discarded original. Funny how long I have depended on the thing -- for over a century. Like me, it is a machine of astonishing durability."

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"Divine intervention seemed like a long shot, honestly. God had folk packing into his churches and filling up his collection plates and living by his Twelve Virtues every saint's day, and as far as she could tell he rarely stepped in on their behalf, so the chances of him sending down an angel for a faithless piece of shit like her must've been close to nil. But she kept saying the words even so."

"Let me be your ally. I can complement what you lack."

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