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And his words sounded like a dictionary entry that had more than one meaning.
“But if you gamble, go all in, and the payoff comes, you’ve won, Quincy.” “And if it doesn’t?” She looked up at him. “Then you are left with the memory of what it felt like to win with that person in that moment, and worth every fools’ hunt to have is the memory of love.”
Some demons drive a man to the bottle, some demons drive a man to the church.”
You give yourself a little to what they give themselves to a lot. And they do the same for you.”
“There are few things more tedious than a friend who will not graciously receive.”
He looked as happy as if the final woman in the world had just declared her love for him and only him.
“I’ve often wondered if our greatest strengths are, in turn, our greatest weaknesses—which is what makes them so hard to temper.”
“I always feel I might be my best self in the fall; I wish to pen my best essays, listen to the purest music, taste the best fruit I can find.”
people are people, if you can strip the lens away.”
What happens when a set of imperfect people spend their time talking about becoming better? Chances are one or two of them might actually choose to become better. Unless we buy the hedonistic drivel of the day, what keeps us from it? Are we so scared of failing? We’re human! We fail. We fall.” He looked at the cathedral, and added emphatically, “We sin. And yet something calls us towards perfection. Do you know why? Because we’re good for it. We have the capacity to examine our lives and improve, to change. But we can’t do it just on our own.
