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Some of the reviewers found this book a bit slow, lacking a plot and exciting twists. However, I found it interesting. Having grown up in Massachusetts most likely helped (and overlooking the author's style of writing which could be obvious in seve...
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This is a really marvelous book--written very much in the spirit of the "experimental narrative" forms with which many social scientists have approached their subjects in recent years. Where it departs from that tradition, however, is in t...
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“I remember thinking I wanted to die rather than live through another February day of grayness; I didn’t tell anyone because I knew it wasn’t normal. And normal was all I ever wanted to be.”
― Sharon E. Rainey, Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
― Sharon E. Rainey, Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
“With each opportunity before me, God presented me with a choice. I could accept His offerings, His wisdom, His grace. Or I could choose to hold onto the pain, the anger and the resentment a little longer.”
― Sharon E. Rainey, Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
― Sharon E. Rainey, Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
“Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby
― Jean-Dominique Bauby
“Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.”
― Wendell Berry, Farming: a hand book
― Wendell Berry, Farming: a hand book
“I wanted to live more than I wanted to die. I didn’t know how to live. I didn’t know how I would be able to live life on life’s terms. But I know God carried me to the end of that journey so I could start a new one. In those few days, God brought me to the point of willingness again, to start down a path with an unknown destination.”
― Sharon E. Rainey, Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
― Sharon E. Rainey, Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
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