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“I’m starting to understand how ridiculous it is to demand civility when the world is so disgustingly uncivil.”
― Blood Over Bright Haven
― Blood Over Bright Haven
“Around other people, you couldn’t keep doing the same thing. They forced you to adapt. Grow.”
― Isles of the Emberdark
― Isles of the Emberdark
“She liked to think of herself as a good, devout woman, but on the other hand, she despised the idea that anything was unknowable.”
― Blood Over Bright Haven
― Blood Over Bright Haven
“...and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge. They cannot come to us, and our imaginations can but feebly penetrate to them. Only among the aisles of the cathedral, only as we gaze upon their silent figures sleeping on their tombs, some faint conceptions float before us of what these men were when they were alive.”
― The Sword in the Stone
― The Sword in the Stone
“What if forgiveness allowed for anger and rage and grief? What if it preserved mistrust and could keep a safe distance for its victims? What if forgiveness acknowledged hurt rather than promising healing; what if it uniquely reckoned with the permanence of a wound, rather than hastily dressing that wound with a thin reconciliation?”
― Forgiveness: An Alternative Account
― Forgiveness: An Alternative Account
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