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No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.

C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

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If we take a close look at what contemporary men and women expect from priests, we will see that, in the end, they have but one great expectation: they are thirsting for Christ.

St. John Paul II, Gift and Mystery

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The heart heals but never completely.

Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

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People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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'Can you see the sunset real good from the West Side?' She blinked, startled, the smiled. 'Real good.' 'You can see it good from the East Side, too.'

S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

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I don't want to be their tragic, lovely lacquer figure. I want to live.

R.F. Kuang, Babel, or the Necessity of Violence

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And if that is the case, then why should I carry this love with me to the other world? Why not give to you what is yours?

Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

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There is nothing to say . . . It is a gift. There. Something to give to you. If I had the necklace or a book of paintings I would give you that instead. I would give you that in addition to my love.

 Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

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Tell me I don't know you, Sam thought. Tell me I don't know you when I could draw both sides of this hand, your hand, from memory.

— Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

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She could not see his humanity, and Noa realized that this was what he wanted most of all: to be seen as human.

Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

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All her life, Sunja had heard this sentiment from other women, that they must suffer—suffer as a girl, suffer as a wife, suffer as a mother—die suffering. Go-saeng—the word made her sick. What else was there besides this?

Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

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And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still.

Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

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Unlikely, but perhaps, perhaps, perhaps . . .

R.F. Kuang, Babel, or the Necessity of Violence

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We had made a fetish out of our misfortune, fallen in love with it.

Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

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Words? This hurts too much.

Fredrik Backman, The Winners

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Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.

Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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She was the golden thread running through everything, a lens that magnified beauty so that the whole world stood transfigured in relation to her, and her alone.

Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch