15 Quotes by Stephen P. Kiernan
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It turns out the greatest kinds of strength are hidden, and move slowly, and cannot be stopped by anything until they have changed the world.
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Some deeds are like tattoos, and the ink of regret is permanent.
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A tale in which one is mortified does not bear repeating.
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No deception lasts forever. Truth rises like good bread dough.
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And what is life but a little row in a small boat, every moment leaving what we know, every stroke unable to see where we are headed?
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If you want to know your worth in this world, make a list of the people who will starve when you die. Who.
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Fear, they learned, did not live in the heart or mind. It inhabited the stomach like a bad oyster. There was nothing to do but endure it.
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There is no way to bring back what has been lost, but maybe telling a tale of beauty is a form of mourning.
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When Emma was fifteen Uncle Ezra had taught her reduction, boiling a full pot of beef or chicken stock down to a quarter cup of spectacular concentrated flavor. Now she understood that there was another kind of reduction, and she had allowed it to happen to her: living made small, a way of life diminished and humiliated.
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