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Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere
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To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered.
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Peter Abrahams |
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Ingrid shrugged...like Marie Antoinette hearing about the starving peasants.
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You see, love is strong. Stronger than hate even. Love is the only thing that can kill hate, nothing else. You see, hate destroys and that's why love is stronger. It builds. There is hope for all the colored people in this country while one white woman can love one colored man. Love keeps one alive. It makes you understan and fight...
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Peter Abrahams |
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I don't want anything now, Sarie thought, not a thing in the world. I have everything I want. Yesterday I wanted so much without knowing what. Today I've got everything...
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Peter Abrahams |
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Innocence is the currency. Survival is bought with innocence. You are born with an abundance of innocence and no knowledge of how to survive: you spend your life trading one for the other. But it only works one way. You can't buy back your innocence.
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Peter Abrahams |
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At that moment, Ingrid remembered 'The Five Orange Pips' and maybe the most important thing Holmes told Watson: the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the ones, both before and after.
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sherlock-holmes
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