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"I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept."
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"Winston stopped reading, chiefly in order to appreciate the fact that he was reading, in comfort and safety. He was alone: no telescreen, no ear at the keyhole, no nervous impulse to glance over his shoulder or cover the page with his hand. The sweet summer air played against his cheek. From somewhere far away there floated the faint shouts of children: in the room itself there was no sound except the insect voice of the clock. He settled deeper into the arm-chair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss, it was eternity."
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"When I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns."
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"He wanted to stay there forever, letting her soothe him, pretending he was just a kid and his mom could make everything okay."
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"If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour."
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"In silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow."
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"You're my love, you're my lighthouse; and the sea is rough in the dark days."
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"Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again."
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"I see when you doubt yourself, i feel your fear. please put down your burden and remember i am here. -your angels."
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"Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul."
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"If there's comfort involved, it's probably not for me."
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"The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiority line, they'll wrap it in a miasma of sex, because that's the only thing they know is feared in our fundamentalist hearts down here."
Society

"We're so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we've got men like Atticus to go for us."
Faith

"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends."
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"There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing.'Your stomach's growling,' I said.'I know it,' he said."
Relationship

"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."
Bible

"They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night."
History

"It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age in any contest requiring physical prowess."
Identity

"They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much."
Compassion

"There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one."
Life

"Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen."
Society
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