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"I took a breath and let it go and suddenly the air was crisper and my lungs lighter and suddenly there was him saying my name in different ways and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror, seeing someone I don't know quite yet but I can't wait to, and that is the start of everything."

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

"Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home."

"I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness."

"The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will."

"Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour."

"The Lord is our hope. The Lord is our help."
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"The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed."


"Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them."


"The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart."


"Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there."


"A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate."


"Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write."
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