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The devil never gave a gift for free.
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Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. (
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Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. Shadows.
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The dreams don't scare me," Abbie said. "It's the opposite. I'm sad to wake up. As if I belong there, in the water, and my bedroom is the dream."
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How else, except through being alone for a while, could you ever discover who you really are? But
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you know everybody has a turn, and you just try to find something interesting every day to make you glad it hasn't happened yet.
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mortality
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A guard is as much a prisoner as those he keeps from freedom.
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If we're not careful, the time may come when we can't help anyone--and I mean soon. My skin crawls when I think about how many people know about us, and they're not all going to come and say 'Please.' God has been with us so far, but we can't be naive. Even God says not to test Him by being foolish.
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Your strength is the strength of stones. Suddenly,
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We only waste energy to have horrible fights with the people we love the most.
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His voice was full of authority. Fana hadn't realized how easy it was to make lies sound plausible. "Can"
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If you believe it, Khaldun had said, I could never convince you otherwise. If you do not, nothing I tell you could sway you. I am the one who should be asking you: Is it the truth? No,
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When my first wife died long ago, in Ethiopia, I thought I knew grief. But until you have witnessed the death of a loved one to another man's violence, you know nothing of grief.
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My mother used to say to me that she collected sorrows and put them in her pocket. Walking around with them that way, by and by, you just learn to carry them all a bit better, to stand up a bit straighter. That's all life is, on this earth anyway.
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a remark Khaldun had made once, when Dawit returned from the battlefield against the Italians: What do you gain from it, Dawit? Must a scythe prove itself sharper than a blade of grass? Let grass grow as it will. While
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They had to work at it, but they found their common ground. Ultimately, though, their differences returned, and she wondered how deeply they ran. How could she continue to overlook them, when they loomed so large? Jessica
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Typing on a screen isn't the same as talking face-to-face," Gramma Bea said, prying Fana's worries wide open. "Life is something you touch. Typing is easy. Touching is hard." Gramma"
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Is that your lesson?" she asked him. "I'm sorry to hear that, because you always said just the opposite. Love what you have while you have it, before it's gone. Isn't that what you were always trying to tell me?" Her damp eyes glimmered."
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When you know someone in the flesh, you know that person only in part," he told her. "A man's teachings are more important than his flesh form. Flesh is an illusion." --
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Michel, the tight-jawed president of the Black Student Caucus, who called her "little sister" and would have had potential if he'd remembered to sprinkle in some fun between bouts of righteous indignation."
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He'd forgotten what it felt like to surrender to the comfort of tranquility.
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All liberation is loneliness
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You're one of those folks who can't open her heart once it's been shut.
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One thing marriage counseling instilled in Hilton was a compulsion for open communication. Whether at home or at work, he knew that anything left unsaid was far more dangerous than spoken words could be, no matter how hurtful. His
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One thing marriage counseling instilled in Hilton was a compulsion for open communication. Whether at home or at work, he knew that anything left unsaid was far more dangerous than spoken words could be, no matter how hurtful.
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