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I love her writing style.

“Heaven knows, we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth overlying our hard hearts.”

Was Charles Dickens always this hilarious? Or is it the delivery of the audiobook reader, or both?

I’m finding it harder and harder to suspend my disbelief.

“Mamaw always had two gods. Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different and neither was anyone else I knew.“

“For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed.”

“…our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunting; but that if we persevere and remain generous of heart, we may be granted a moment of supreme lucidity – a moment in which all that has happened to us suddenly comes into focus as a necessary course of events, even as we find ourselves on the threshold of a bold new life that we had been meant to lead all along.”

“It is one of the intrinsic limitations of being young, my dear, that you can never tell when a grand adventure has just begun.”

“For it is the role of the parent to express his concerns and then take three steps back. Not one, mind you, not two, but three. Or maybe four. (But by no means five.) Yes, a parent should share his hesitations and then take three or four steps back, so that the child can make a decision by herself – even when that decision may lead to disappointment.”

”By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration – and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.”

“Leaning forward, Nina cupped her palms against the glass and squinted. “If only I were there, and she were here,” she sighed. And there, thought the Count, was a suitable plaint for all mankind.”

“Tall and thin, with a narrow head and superior demeanor, he looked rather like a bishop that had been plucked from a chessboard.”

George Fox: “He avoided conversing, even with professing Christians, ‘for I was sensible,’ says he, ‘that they did not possess what they professed.’”

“Grown men don’t have enough things they’re afraid of on this planet to become good at running.”

“ Obviously none of them dares to actually talk about the paintings on the walls, they’re far too frightened of accidentally thinking the wrong thing, someone else needs to think something first so they can know what they’re allowed to love.”