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“I remember wanting to flee her, and being unable to flee her, so in need of her and half hating her for it, and I still am nauseous from it.”
“It doesn't mean I'm not thinking it. I always feel a bit defeated when I have to follow up with "I love you too". It's like the sequel to a film: I Love You and I Love You Too. You know the second ...”
“I'm not saying he was, like, crying tears of man pain over the phone, but he sounded upset.”
“Your life has intrinsic value, not simply because of who you are as an individual, but because of who He is as your God.”
“Sketchy black van? Weird stalking of my house? What are you going to do next, offer me some candy?”
“I love the world, just, you know...not the people in it.”
“His hair was shorter than I remembered, tawny in this half-light, the tousled edges casually framing the clean, commanding lines of his face. His mouth, normally so stern was relaxed now and as I s...”
“Stupid bitch," he spits, and that's when I mentally punch him in the face.Except it isn't just mentallyit's for real, my closed fist is actually moving. It hits him square in the nose with a sicken...”
“No problem. Just drop it back off before you go," he says, procuring a brass key. "And if he puts on Bowie's early stuff and starts sweet-talking, dammit, you run. You run as fast as you can.”
“And even if we did, which we didn't, it's none of your business.""Okay.""I just wanted you to know.""Okay.""If you say okay one more time, I'm going to punch you in the solar plexus."His eyebrows j...”
“Magic to be its best must be unexpected".”
“Magic to be its best must be unexpected.”
“Seth turns to Laney and I. "Three months ago, I'm in Detroit protesting a free trade conference, right? Some pig shoves me, I go flying into another, next thing I know I'm on the ground with a Tase...”
“We should go swimming," Anna says, out of the blue.”
“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”
“Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”
“I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself.”
“Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them move into my house. Would you Helen? Would you really?”
“Believe me, Nra. An old broom knows the dirty corners best”
“Christ came into the world to save sinners, not good people, and your unworthiness is your greatest claim for His salvation.”
