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“I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.”
“Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.”
“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
“But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.”