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“Praying is a resting place.”

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“They were brave and romantic, tragic and distinguished, and Doremus became a little sick of them all and of the final brutality of fact that no normal man can very long endure another's tragedy, and that friendly weeping will some day turn to irritated kicking.”

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Book:It Can't Happen Here

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“[Mrs. Loraine's] sweet lips folded themselves into a straight line, and Stella thought briefly how odd it was that thinking differently about God tended to make even the nicest people not very sympathetic towards each other.”

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Book:Gentian Hill

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“She wasn’t going to back down. She knew that. She communicated that. She was here until the death.”

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Book:Weregirl

Source: Weregirl

“You shouldn’t wear your mask. It could break, and you’ll need it again for something else.”

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Book:An Echo of Darkness

Source: An Echo of Darkness

“The faith induced jihadi fervor that served the Muslims so well in the mortal combats of yore became their very bane in the later day techno-military conflicts with the scientific tempered kafirs.”

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“A real moonlight serenade under the stars. Say what you want about me, but I am romantic.”

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Book:Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

“To those not yet old, being old means you’ve been. But being old also means that despite, in addition to, and in excess of your beenness, you still are. Your beenness is very much alive. You still are, and one is as haunted by the still-being and its fullness as by the having-already-been, by the pastness. Think of old age this way: it’s just an everyday fact that one’s life is at stake.”

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Book:The Dying Animal

Source: The Dying Animal

“We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are looking in from the outside. To me, that seems to be perfectly natural.”

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Author:Don DeLillo

“One’s story isn’t a skin to be shed— it’s inescapable, one’s body and blood. You go on pumping it out till you die, the story veined with the themes of your life, the ever-recurring story that’s at once your invention and the invention of you.”

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“Tits and cunts and legs and lips and mouths and tongues and assholes! How can I give up what I have never even had, for a girl, who delicious and provocative as once she may have been, will inevitably grow as familiar to me as a loaf of bread?”

Book:Portnoy’s Complaint

Source: Portnoy’s Complaint