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Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

[On Papa via Kade] He's just a grownup boy, stuck in a body, stuck in a life. And his life isn't wokring. It's not owrking at all. And he's got no father, his mother can't understand, he's got no one to help him fix it.

I don't answer. Let him see how it feels to pour your heart out to a statue.

"She said one today, and they laughed so bad Beal started hollering, 'Thank you, Vera,' just hoping to end the noise. But it was like she couldn't hear, like the noise never mattered, because she really was praying, see, not just pretending, so no one counted to her, except maybe -- you know, God, or something."

"And that new church," Papa cut in, his face suddenly savage, "is two thousand years old now, and every bit as senile and mean-spirited as the one that killed Him!"