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The Nolans just couldn’t get enough of life. They lived their own lives up to the hilt but that wasn’t enough. They had to fill in on the lives of all the people they made contact with.
Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer.
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.
OH, MAGIC HOUR WHEN A CHILD FIRST KNOWS IT CAN READ PRINTED WORDS!
was willing to exchange soul-destroying suspicion for heartbreaking reality.
“For once I wanted us to feel like millionaires. And if twenty cents can make us feel rich, it’s a cheap price to pay.”
“We’re not living in adultery. We’re living in bigamy.”
“Dear God,” she prayed, “let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry…have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere—be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
She was puzzled as to why learned people didn’t adopt chemistry as a religion.
