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After awhile, they noticed I was listening in, partly because I kept asking them to repeat things.
“Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?… Just so’s you’re sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed, cause wholeness is no trifling matter. A lot of weight when you’re well.”
― The Salt Eaters
― The Salt Eaters
“Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.”
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“How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
Doug’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Doug’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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372 books
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716 books
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