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“That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the evening and then found her way home in the dark by the streetlights of town and so returned to the people who loved her. And in the fall the days turned cold and the leaves dropped off the trees and in the winter the wind blew from the mountains and out on the high plains of Holt County there were overnight storms and three-day blizzards.”

Quote by Kent Haruf

Book:Benediction

Work

Benediction

Benediction is a narrative that delves into the complexities of human emotions and moral dilemmas, focusing on the transformative power of forgiveness and the quest for redemption. more

Author

Kent Haruf

Kent Haruf was an American novelist known for his vivid portrayal of rural life in the American Midwest. His works delve into the complexities of human nature and the diversity of society, earning him a dedicated following among readers. more

“We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would sooner or later have thought; or what we would have thought much later if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have been likely to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have liked to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Has Beens Shows Form Certain Agree Thinker Sooner Or Later Affinity

Book:Almost No Memory: Stories

Source: Almost No Memory: Stories

“We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don’t usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I’m saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.”

Ifs Feels Whole Character Remember Asks Natural Memories Scene Dialogue Narrative Interiors Ongoing Our Memories Scrap

Author:Lydia Davis

“You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain and that’s why you would do it again. That has nothing to do with it. You can’t measure it, because the pain comes after and it lasts longer. So the question really is, Why doesn’t that pain make you say, I won’t do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don’t.”

Knows Whole Pain Lasts Pleasure Greater

Book:Break It Down: Stories

Source: Break It Down: Stories

“The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not real. Another way all this is like madness: a mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.”