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She said that people liked to hear the sound of their own names above and beyond any other sound in the world. She said it was a scientifically proven fact.
There are the rescuers in this world and there are the rescued. I have always fallen into the second category.
Granny has always said that long silences make people uncomfortable and that sometimes they will say or do things that they would not normally say or do in order to fill up the silence.
And please remember this: someone put you down in that alley, but I picked you up. And perhaps what matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks us up.
“Be polite up to the last minute. Be polite until they absolutely force you not to be.”
“However, my day-to-day interactions tend to deal more with garden-variety issues — the loss of hope, the combating of despair, the balm of forgiveness, the need to understand, the short tempers and distrustful natures of church organists.
“I don’t know, Louisiana. I can’t see into the future. I do think that, more often than not, love has a way of finding us.”
Take what is offered to you.”
said, “I don’t know who I am. I only know that I am not who I thought I was.” Reverend Obertask nodded his big head. “That is a problem we all face sooner or later, I suppose.”
We all, at some point, have to decide who we want to be in this world. It is a decision we make for ourselves. You are being forced to make this decision at an early age, but that does not mean that you cannot do it well and wisely. I believe you can. I have great faith in you. You decide. You decide who you are, Louisiana. Do you understand?”
It seems like a good thing to know the star that can keep you from being lost in this world.
