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… at that moment, all is one, and nothing separates their two worlds.

To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.

“Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”

“Roses would be annoying weeds if the blooms never withered and died. Beauty resides in the knowledge that it doesn’t last.”

“You won’t make my mistake, will you?”
“What mistake is that?”
“The mistake, Digby, of choosing to see more in your future mate than the evidence has already suggested.”

“Small things make a big difference, Digby. God is in the small things.”

And Digby is living the recurring nightmare of every surgeon: the patient under ether, the body cavity open, but the anatomy unrecognizable.

‘What’s fur ye won’t go by ye’ … whatever is in his destiny will come to him, regardless.

All water is connected and only land and people are discontinuous.

Listening IS talking for him; there’s an eloquence to this kind of attentiveness; it’s rare, and yet he’s generous with it.