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"She said nothin against the Church, she'd just come at last to The Church that mattered. Why go to what men devised with arsenic-soaked timber when the Lord provides the pillars of mountains, the vault of celestial lights, and pews decked with leaf-scatterin aspens and birches, pines, vines and mountain petals, and all of it choired with birdsong and the mur-mur of glacial streams?"

"If you don't hope, you can't fear. You face your moment clearheaded."

"Folks can't stand the idea that there's just as much bad in their own community as there is outside it."

"... beware of the stories you read or tell, because at night, beneath the surface of your wakefulness, they are alterin your world."

"... we come into this world wrapped up and spoken for. We gotta do somethin beyond that, unwrap ourselves, speak for someone else, at least until they can speak fer themselves."

"All our castles fall back into the sea. It's easy to forget that that's why we build them in the first place: to remember the sea."

"The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly."

"No one talks to the dead for free."