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“ love should be put into action! Screamed the old hermit. across the pond an echo tried and tried to confirm it”

“ as previously mentioned in chapter XV, Navidson never photographed scenery, but he also never photographed the threat of death without interposing someone else between himself and it.”

“ only this: at every stage, from one through six, you will risk more, see more, gather more, process more, fashion more, consider more, love more, suffer more, imagine more and in the end know why less means more and leave what doesn’t and keep what implies and create what matters. This is what is meant by ‘Artist’.”

“ illness and hunger are on her, but Death is still a few paces behind, perched on a rocky mound, talons fully extended, black eyes focused on Famine’s daughter.”

“The laft week has been particularly funny, though not at all, I affure you, funny.”

“What did God really know about brothers (or for that matter sisters)? He was after all an only child and before it all an equally lonely father.”

“i miss her i miss delial i miss the man i thought i was before i met her the man who would have saved her who would have done something who would have been tom maybe hes the one im looking for or maybe im looking for all of them
i miss u i love u
there's no second ive lived you can't call your own”

“ I just made God a street address.”

“ the world around only mattered because people lived there, and sometimes, in spite of the pain, tragedy, and degradation, even managed to triumph there.”

“Your monster, however, is purely American. Edgeless for one thing, something a compendium of diverse cultures definitely requires.”