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“ no matter how careful you are, there is always the chance of running across something more terrible than you are prepared to handle.”

“Ignorance is no longer a shield.”

“Running toward danger is foolhardy. But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.”

“Sometimes it was safe to leave certain things unseen.”

“History revealed the building blocks of the world I now inhabited, explaining how communities, institutions, relationships came to be. Learning history made the world makes sense. It provided the key to decode all that I saw around me.”

“A silence fell amid the three of them. It was not an entirely uncomfortable silence. In it they became friends.”

“[Arlene Hanscom] looked out thethe window and uttered a sigh that was full of trouble. ‘There’s something ugly about this town. I’ve always thought so.’”

“Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but . . . loneliness encompassed his life and overreached it.

Beverly was a sweet dream; the candy was a sweet reality. The candy was his friend.”

‘I am remembering my boyhood at last, he thought. I am remembering how I spent my own summer vacation in that dim dead year of 1958 . . . Oh God if I could only forget it all again.’

Oh boy. The conscious, deliberate intention of twisting the Genesis account is insane.

Starting over again.

“ I don’t want to live my life challenging God at every turn by staying just on the edge of sin. I want to be completely obedient to my Father, not only because of the great love with which he loved me, but because of the amazing grace he showed me.”

“This de-creation will all be rectified on the last day, when God creates the new heaven and the new earth.” 💛

I definitely do not agree with Durant's idea on the first biological lesson of history on co-operation and competition. Kind of a skewed viewed on humanity--that we're just "fighting machines" trying to survive.