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“So, at the last, a story.”
“All things found their ends.”
“City of memories, city of mirrors.”
“The heart, once broken, stayed broken.”
“Behind every great hatred is a love story.”
“Absolution is not the same as understanding.”
“I would not say I was a nonbeliever; rather, that I gave little if any thought to celestial concerns. It did not seem to me that God, whoever he was, would be the sort of god to take an interest in...”
“I wanted to kill them. No, not kill. "Kill" is too dull a word for that which I desired. I wanted to annihilate them. I wanted to tear them limb from limb. I wanted to crack their bones and bury my...”
“Consider the species known as man. We lie, we cheat, we want what others have and take it; we make war upon each other and the earth; we harvest lives in multitude. We have mortgaged the planet and...”
“It's children, he thought, that give us our lives; without them we are nothing, we are here and then gone, like the dust.”
“For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.”
“She thought she should take a moment to pray. But, as she was holding a loaded rifle, conventional prayer did not seem entirely suitable. Sister Peg hoped that God would help her, but it was her be...”
“How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.”
“The memory was unpleasant; he'd taken an instant disliking to the man. Compounding Peter's distrust, Chase was wearing a necktie, the most incomprehensible article of clothing in the history of the...”
“What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.”
“It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.”
“All things fell into the past but one; and what that was, was love.”
“For the first time he considers the full emotional dimensions of the day. His life is changing but his parents lives are changing too. Like a habitat, abruptly deprived of a major species, the hous...”
“Below lies the dark core, that great iron ball beneath all things. Its compressed weight is fantastic; it is older than time itself. It is a vestige of the blackness that predates all existence, wh...”
“Behind every great hatred is a love story. For I am a man who has known and tasted love. I say a man because that is how I know myself. Look at me, and what do you see? Do I not take the form of a ...”
“All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.”
“What is home but a place where you are truly known?”
