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The mind lovingly preserves each tree and blade of grass of one’s youth, and it’s easy to get choked up when these memories come flooding back.
“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
“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
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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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“One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.”
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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
Gina’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Gina’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
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