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“Fair is whatever God wants to do.”

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This novel is a poignant exploration of the complexities of human relationships and the power of redemption. Set in the 1960s, it follows the lives of a father and his two sons as they navigate the challenges of life, faith, and love. The story delves into themes of forgiveness, family dynamics, and the search for peace amidst personal and societal turmoil. more

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Leif Enger

Leif Enger is an American author born in 1961. His works are known for their profound character development and rich emotional expression. Enger's debut novel, 'The Book of Dreams,' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, propelling him to fame. more

“How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.”

World Mean Whole Moments Turns Imagination Pleasure Crime Objects Horror Creatures Whole World Delightful Delectable

Author:Marquis de Sade

“Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.”

Want Life Pain Water Medicine Cures

Author:Rumi

“Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!”

Ifs Men World Children Helping Would Be Men And Women Dear My Children Dear Me

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”

Inspirational Spiritual Sadness Disease Fearful Sufi Degrade Inspirational Sufi Sufi Love Disease And Death

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me.”

Way Certain Childhood Letters Sentences Soup Enlightening Alphabet Paddling Mutiny Alphabet Soup

Book:The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”

Life Doe Stills Ends Seems Interesting Higher Ambition Glad Life Changing Delightful Green Gables

Book:Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

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