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“But a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn’t be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet. He wouldn’t be God. There’s more to everything than we can know.”
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“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
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― Where the Crawdads Sing
“We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
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― It Ends with Us
“I hope you defy the odds of most dreams and actually accomplish yours.”
― It Ends with Us
― It Ends with Us
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― It Ends with Us
― It Ends with Us
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