“I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.” YearsLongDoeSometimesDoneStoriesLyingFallFoundFatherLostBehindsBrainTalkingSonReturnLoversOfficeLettersWake UpProofPostsAddressesFortyDesksUnlikelyUndoneCollectorsPost OfficeReunitedBrain DeadOffice Desk Book:The Age of Miracles Source: The Age of Miracles
“When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.” IfsMenWayLoveFeelsHas BeensStoriesThreeLove IsWifeConditionsMastersFoolKingsMarriedLet MeMadnessFortyWarningTemperDeliciousThree TimesWisestMarried LifeBeen In LoveSolomonPretty Woman Author:William Makepeace Thackeray
“Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.” IfsYearsI CanTwoBookStoriesUsedHouseSidesDoorsCommunicationWallOughtGardenFruitCoachesUsed To BePleasantFortySouthernBricksSuburbsSixteenRailway Book:Two years ago ... Third edition Source: Two years ago ... Third edition
“At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.” WorldStoriesBodyReligionThreeThis WorldPeriodsEmptyDisappearCoreFiftyHeavenlyFortyEasterTombsExitAngelicAnnouncementsAscensionTime Periods Book:Resurrection: Myth or Reality? Source: Resurrection: Myth or Reality?