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“Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?”
“Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.”
“Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, "Go home.”
“It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.”
“It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.”
“She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words spilled out of him without prior composition. And this time he made no effort to clamp the...”
“If you are in the mountains alone for some time, many days at minimum, & it helps if you are fasting. The forest grows tired of its weariness towards you; it resumes its inner life and allows you t...”
“There in the highlands, clear weather held for much of the time. The air lacked its usual haze, and the view stretched on and on across rows of blue mountains, each paler than the last until the fi...”
“I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don...”
“We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.”
“With the snow piling up outside, the warm dry cabin hidden in its fold of the mountain felt like a safe haven indeed, though it had not been such for the people who had lived there. Soldiers had fo...”
“ she claimed its a sign of Gods mercy that He wont let us remember the reddest details of pain. He knows the parts we cant bear and wont let our minds render them again. In time, from disuse, they ...”
“Where had he been? Drinking, obviously. Then she started cataloging all the ways he was worthless. On fool impulse, as his most potent available argument against Lily, Bud stuck his hands into his ...”
“He said, I've been coming for you on a hard road. I'm never letting you go. Never.”
“He saw with sorrow that hers was a life he could step right into and keep working at hard from tonight until death. If he allowed himself to ponder it for a minute, he saw all the world hanging ove...”
“One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out ...”
“Ruby said there were many songs that you could not say anybody in particular had made by himself. A song went around from fiddler to fiddler and each one added something and took something away so ...”
“Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable ...”
“From inside the tavern came the sounds of a fiddle being tuned, various plucks and tentative bowings, then a slow and groping attempt at Aura Lee, interrupted every few notes by unplanned squeaks a...”
“He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.”
“They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!”
“They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, Shit, its raining!”
