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"She had learned to understand it over the years. Her father's marvelous gentleness was not because he lacked a keen enough perception of the faults and wretchedness of others; it came from his constant searching of his own heart before God, crushing it in repentance over his own failings..."

"They would take with them bloody threads from the roots of her heart when they flew off, and they wouldn't even know it."

"He was the poorer for it. Bars is the brotherless back."

I am being crushed by this book

"Prayers, fasts, everything he had practiced because he had been taught to do so, suddenly seemed new to him - weapons in a glorious war for which he longed."

"Even she had realized that a woman like herself would need harsh trials before she could be cured of her lack of love."