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'Eight of the ten commandments are about what thou shalt not. But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing anything good. That's the whole crisis. The rot at the root of everything. The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing.'
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'Fear made me work hard, get better. It's a dirty fuel, but it works.'
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'Propriety is correct. Justice is just. There's an inescapable transactional quality: perform x good, receive y reward. Grace doesn't work that way. It begins with the reward. Goodness never enters the equation.'
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'He studied her eyes. They were deep black but flashed with a brightness, like they held tiny fish that turned to catch the light on their scales. An incitement.'
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'"What's the trick, then?" he asked. "The trick to being at peace at the end?" Orkideh laughed. "If I knew, do you think I'd tell you?"'
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'I didn't know what any of it meant, but I knew it meant intensely.'
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'Roya knew she would never be able to be the sort of mother her own mother had been, the kind who quivered with love like a wet branch.'
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