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“I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circums...”
“evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not...”
“To die,so young to die.No, no, not I,I love the warm sunny skies,light, song, shining eyes,I want no war, no battle cry,No, no, not I.”
“I'll be singing hymns to the rafters, be praising His goodness so loud they're going to have to turn down the volume in Heaven.”
“It's just nice, I guess. Knowing that someone else can put into words what I feel. That there are people who have been through things worse than I have, and they come out on the other side okay. No...”
“These songs tell me I'm not alone. If you look at it that way, music...music can see you through anything.”
“Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustnt shirk it. Love, after all, 'hopeth all t...”
“Do you love him?"How would I know?"You'd know.”
“I am tough for a reason and it is to fucking destroy the music. I dance hard.”
“I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.”
“It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool suspended from constellations. She used chimes now and then, the chimes that...”
“I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things.”
“Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.”
“I guess this is a message for those of you who contemplate permanent solutions to temporary problems. You never know what could be coming in the future. There is so much music you've yet to hear.”
“When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.”
“Everyone's crazy, but few show it.”
“Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn't it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down. Why is that? Perhaps we think everybody on the tube is a potential ps...”
“the world and the people who inhabit it are not the same. The world lies between people, and this in-between much more than (as is often thought) men or even man is today the object of the greate...”
“Finally, finally, this is what bravery looks like. This is what courage looks like. It has nothing to do with dominating the day, every single day. It has to do with showing up and speaking truth. ...”
“All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much access to Daddys credit cards. Girls who, if you took away the designer labels, hair dye and cover-...”
