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“Indeed. Since this is the will of God, He provides us with the necessary tools: the energy required for hard work, the industriousness, the persistence, and . . .”—here he looked at me for a long moment before continuing—“and therefore He
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“He only stopped when he’d met himself again.
The Armand who’d been standing on the side of the quiet road, in the middle of nowhere, waiting. At the intersection of truth and wishful thinking.
Where the straight road splayed. And he knew then. They were all going down.”
p.40”
― Glass Houses
The Armand who’d been standing on the side of the quiet road, in the middle of nowhere, waiting. At the intersection of truth and wishful thinking.
Where the straight road splayed. And he knew then. They were all going down.”
p.40”
― Glass Houses
“All those years I spent trying to bring the men that murdered Roosevelt Haynes to justice, and turns out my daddy wasn’t Roosevelt but the leader of the lynch mob. How’s that for irony?”
― Legacy of Lies
― Legacy of Lies
“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
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“Christianity was not meant to be a weapon or an argument or a show of force or a political tool. Or an act of aggression or coercion. It was never meant to be a cause or a prop for a cause. Or something to pacify and make thousands go to bed happy and unthinking. It was meant to be a challenge, yes, but that challenge to a second life was meant to be laced with kindness. If someone forces you to choose between God is holy and God is love choose God is love because holiness without love translates into tyranny.”
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