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“Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.”
Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster
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“Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite”
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“As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.”
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“On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.”
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“One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.”
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“I don't look at myself as suffering.”
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“Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.”
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“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.184, Macmillan
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“Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.”
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“You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.”
Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House
