Rivera Sun · 417 pages
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“All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.”
“A freedom given up is not so easily regained.”
“The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.”
“Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together.”
“We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.”
“The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars.”
“As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.”
“This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.”
“Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.”
“No one's life made sense on paper. You cannot condense a person into facts.”
“We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.”
“Sometimes we don't know that it's best to run. Hanging on in desperation seems to be our way.”
“And then Grom says: "I'm already mated to Paca."
The realization slaps us each in a different way.
Me, with elation
Galen, with...I'm not sure. He hasn't moved
Mom, with horror.
Toraf, with open-mouth shock that makes him look a bit silly.
Rayna, with "You idiot," she spits. "We told you-"
Grom points at her in the universal watch-yo-self sign.”
“Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.”
“... if history is told correctly, no man has caused the worldwide stir that Jesus Christ did 2000 years ago... Jesus was the non-conformist of all time. He took the conventions of religion, tradition, and love and turned them upside down. He faced the political and religious leaders of His day and spoke truths they had never heard before. He walked in our world as the human voice of God.”
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