66 Quotes by Rene Denfeld



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    You can get a taste of an idea inside you, and the next thing you know, it won't leave. Until you do something about it.

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    The window is the reason the death row inmates go to the visiting room to see their lawyers and investigators. The lawyers think their clients want to see them. No, they want to see the window.

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    She is afraid, and yet she wants the priest to see inside her and accept the monsters that wrap around the secret, pure part of her--the part she managed to save, miraculously, that so many of us have lost. she knows the monsters are there and yet wants to be seen.

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    Everyone needs faith: faith that even though the world is full of evil, a suitor will come and kiss us awake; faith that the girl will escape the tower, the big bad wolf will die, and even those poisoned by malevolence can be reborn, as innocent as purity itself.

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    Later I read that there are things inside us too tiny to see. Not even a microscope can capture them. This got me thinking – if there are things inside us too tiny to see, might there be things outside us too big to believe?

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    If death row is a sharp punishment, life without parole can be an endless torture.

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    The truth is, clocks don’t tell time. Time is measured in meaning.

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