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"A family is one of nature's solubles, it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater."
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"If you take a stand [for God] and mean it, you may suffer persecution. Some of your friends will drift away. They don't want to be with people like you. You speak to their conscience. They feel uncomfortable in your presence because you live for God."
"Our relationship must be right with God before it can be right with man."
"Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?"
"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal."
"Go! Yes, You! Go! I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me. Unconditional love has a condition inside it but there is no you in me. If I know my real me, then I know your real you. I know your value in me and I also know my value in you. If your value is not in me and my value is not in you, then I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me, so go!"
"Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn't splash back on us."
"A relationship is the union of two psychological systems."
"To get someone's attentionsay three words with compassion.Say "I love you", more than me,like the river loves the sea."
"When I'm with you,I feel exposed.Naked. When I'm naked with you, I feel clothed.Sheltered."
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"It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts."
"Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly."
"I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards."
"Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny."
"The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly."
"From the beginning, I've told journalists that I planned to write better than any writer of my era who graduated from an Ivy League college. It sounds boastful and it is. But The Citadel taught me that I was a man of courage when I survived that merciless crucible of a four-year test that is the measure of The Citadel experience. I'm the kind of writer I am because of The Citadel."
"I wish nights like this weren't so fragile and slippery and impossible to nail down for study in one's leisure. But the really great nights pass through you like whispers or shadows. They shimmer, but don't adhere."
"She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself."
"A family is one of nature's solubles, it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater."
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