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The Moffats
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From time to time the children walked through the empty rooms, feeling strange. The yellow house was no longer their home. Later on it would live in their memories alive and glowing again like the coals that used to fall in the grates. But
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“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
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“We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.”
― Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
― Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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