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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless.
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No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.
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What's big, thick, makes the earth move, and wants to have its way with you?" "I don't know, but can you introduce me?
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(from the short story The Honorary Shepherds)...you can't be kicked out of a faith. Faith starts inside your heart and ends up in eternity. All you can be kicked out of is a building, which is the bus stop of faith, sort of, and what's a building?
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A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better.
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He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.
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