“Jacob longed to grow up, to become an adult, yet he was still drawn to so much from childhood, and he did not want to give up his playing.”
Source: Children of the Stars
“Everyone calls you ‘Pasture.’ Do you raise cows or sheep?
They call me ‘Pastor’ because I’m like a shepherd for people, and I lead them to safe pasture in God’s good earth.”
Source: Children of the Stars
“For her, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon was much more than an out-of-the-way French college. It was a secret mountain, the last place in Europe where people could carry on as people — the last place human beings could live together in harmony.”
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“A long, dark shadow was stretching over the valley: the shadow of death and fear, darkness and hatred, which bided its time for the chance to overtake each home, field, and byway until it devoured the last ray of hope in the hearts of the women and men of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.”
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“The town embodied the reality that people could always find a way out, and the impact of one good deed was infinitely more powerful than that of evil.”
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“We live in a world in which men have become wolves for other men.”
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“He was the last witness of the world that was going extinct, never to be seen again.”
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“Adults were always judging one another based on appearance, religion, skin color, or wealth. Children were not like that. For them, everyone was equal, and they hardly noticed differences between peers.”
Source: Children of the Stars
“I can’t live there, but I don’t know what I’d do if Buenos Aires didn’t exist. Chaotic, dehumanizing, dirty, anarchic — but she is my mistress, my lover.”
Source: Children of the Stars
“The souls of men and women make a country great.”
Source: Children of the Stars