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“Raymie wasn’t sure which fairy tale. Maybe it was a fairy tale that hadn’t been told yet.”

“She did not like the unnaturalness altogether of grown-up people, all alone without children, playing at a child’s game…. All that day it seemed to her as though she were acting in a theater with actors cleverer than she, and that her bad acting was spoiling the whole performance.”

Need to save this comparison:
“He looked as fresh as a big glossy green Dutch cucumber.”

Such a great quote: “A feeling akin to the feeling of a sailor who sees by the compass that the direction in which he is swiftly moving is far from the right one…that every instant is carrying him farther and farther away, and that to admit to himself his deviation from the right direction is the same as admitting his certain ruin.”

“It is a fair, even handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infections in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.”

“The only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.”

“The human life cycle no less than evolves around the box; from the open-topped box called a bassinet, to the pine box we call a coffin, the box is our past, and just as assuredly, our future.”

“A girl who knew and cared nothing about God’s love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.”

“He felt only an immense disappointment because he had to go to God empty-handed. It seemed to him, at that moment, that it would have been quite easy to have been a saint. It would only have needed a little restraint and a little courage. He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted—to be a saint.”

“It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or a civilization—it needed a God to die for the halfhearted and the corrupt.”

Corrie Ten Boom, “Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength—carrying two days at a time. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow—it empties today of its strength.”

“One enemy of truth—and of appreciative attending to the world as it presents itself to us in real time—is certainty.”

“The little word ‘is’ has its tragedies: it names and equates different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical.” George Santayana

Who knew a grammar book could be so enjoyable?

“I could wish he would modestly examine himself, to see how much he is unworthy so good a lady.”

Maybe because Jack is such a lost soul floundering in self-exile that I think this is the least interesting book in the series

“I’m not lost anymore, and the dream had all the sweetness of a mild day in summer.”

“My faith tells me that God shared poverty, suffering, and death with human beings, which can only mean that such things are full of dignity and meaning.”