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“He had a dilapidated body and a face like the last days of the Raj: jowly, discredited, eager for the final defeat.”
― Amends
― Amends
“She kissed him then, with the same mixture of wonder and irony with which she kissed the cross in church. She didn't always understand that, either.”
― Amends
― Amends
“Yes. But I like Americans," she said, with a sigh. "Everybody likes Americans. You have to. It upsets them so much if you don't.”
― Christ's Body, Christ's Wounds: Staying Catholic When You've Been Hurt in the Church
― Christ's Body, Christ's Wounds: Staying Catholic When You've Been Hurt in the Church
“When you say, 'I do,' you cannot be sincere, because you cannot know what you're doing. You may want some idea called 'being married' but you have no idea what being married will actually require of you. And so your sincerity and your strength of character don't really matter. If you are a morally weak person you can still marry. You don't have to wait until you're ready, because you're never ready. And so it is with 'I'm sorry.”
― Amends
― Amends
“Her voice became vibrant and raw, veined with passion. "You can never go back to the past. You can't heal their wounds or your own. Even God will not do this for you," and this was a bit controversial with her audience, but she believed she had proof: "Jesus himself was not healed--he came back from the dead with the wounds still in his hands and his body. He came back changed, but not healed. Saying 'I'm sorry' is saying that you will be different from now on. Your identity stretches to accomodate this thing you did to them. And in this way a relationship is formed between the person you have hurt and yourself.”
― Amends
― Amends
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