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He turned back to consider the craft again. He dropped to his knees beside the rent in the fuselage. “Don’t do it,” Roger shouted from below. For the rest of his life, Harvey wished he’d heeded those words. Because after he looked inside
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“Damn this war, anyway, he thought, and damn every war. What good was this to anybody? Men blowing each other to smithereens, flattening cities, setting islands on fire. And all of it getting worse by the day, with ever more horrible weapons.”
― The Stars and Their Light
― The Stars and Their Light
“Yet sometimes”
― The Story Collector
― The Story Collector
“They still seem to like you, though,” says Rosie. “That’s because I lose,” says Ferdy. “If I’d won, they’d hate me. That’s politics.”
― We Solve Murders
― We Solve Murders
“Since Blacks weren’t really allowed to purchase homes, nice cars were really the only way to show affluence and accomplishment. And the automobiles they typically purchased were large because often whole families had to sleep in them. And the powerful engines were critical, to outrun whites intent on doing them harm, including the police.”
― A Calamity of Souls
― A Calamity of Souls
“She turned her head on the grass to look at Betty. The girl continued to gaze at the stars, and her face, in profile, was picked out by starlight, sharp and illumined as if by a halo of consecrated fire. Betty was braver than she realized, braver than Mary Agnes could ever be. For she looked full into the face of mystery and found the cold clarity of truth. It, too, was a mirror’s surface. Mary Agnes prayed that Betty’s looking glass would never break.”
― The Stars and Their Light
― The Stars and Their Light
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