“This is love. Finally, he understood. This was what made sane men into fools.”
“You hear about people waiting too long to retire, then one of ’em gets sick. . .”
“The whole town is talking about you sleeping with her. I won’t have it.” Mac laughed,”
“And I’m not just saying that”
“bike. “Got the old girl out of”
“said softly, framing his son’s face”
“He’s bossy and pushy and—” “Totally smitten,”
“He’d fallen in love with a woman”
“You got three seconds, he says, then they're comin down. He starts to count. One... two...
I turn and run.
I can still hear him laughin when I'm halfways back to camp.”
“Ray Bradbury had once written that “living at risk is jumping off a cliff, and building your wings on the way down.” Sampson”
“It is this - that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That's what I want to say. Don't you forget that. Whatever happens, don't you dare let yourself forget.”
“Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way.”
“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”
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