“The mind remembers what the soul can bear.”
“Rachael could find no solace in other people's tales of woe. Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.”
“It was somehow easier to love a person who wasn't there.”
“We will continue to march, even if everything shatters, because today Germany hears us, and tomorrow, the whole world. And because of the Great War, the world lies in ruins, but devil may care, we build it up again.”
“Lewis could feel something swelling inside him, at his sinuses and in his chest. He had worked hard to keep this ghost at bay, but now it was pressing in, coming to claim its dues. The tears were coming, and he had to swallow to hold them. He stood up.”
“Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.”
“On the other side, apartment blocks—intact except for the fronts, which had been completely blown off, revealing the rooms and furniture within—stood like giant doll’s houses.”
“That was the trouble with being too highly born, Finbarr considered. The gods paid too much attention to you. It was ever thus in the Celtic world. Ravens would fly over the house to announce the death of a clan chief, swans would desert the lake. A king’s bad judgement could affect the weather. And if you were a prince, the druids made prophesies about you from before the day you were born; and after that, there was no escape.”
“But a light now waxed within him at the knowledge that such wonders as he had been shown could exist.”
“You had to invent something. It's not possible to leave it blank. The mind
won't let you.”
“Great love endures time, heartache, and distance. And even when all seems lost, true love lives on.”
“The day was so wonderful that Bonaventure thought it would taste like cherry pie if he took a bite of it.”
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