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All they bend their bodies to is prayer; the daily office is prayer, the hard work of the body is prayer also. The silence of the nuns is prayer, the readings they listen to prayer, their humility prayer. And prayer of course is love.
“Sometimes life just writes you tiny, awful poems.”
― Sea Wife
― Sea Wife
“Hating . . . not him exactly, but the idea of him, or the idea of people like him -- and though he has been taught to not believe in the sameness of all such persons, a logic as inborn as the structure of his DNA connect each and every one of them. . .”
― Not on Fire, but Burning
― Not on Fire, but Burning
“What they're doing down there is mourning. As millions of people across the infinitude of the grid shall always be mourning, coping with every imaginable variation of loss. Every loss deserves a telling.”
― Not on Fire, but Burning
― Not on Fire, but Burning
“God is our pilot now, and we'll go wherever his breath blows us.”
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“I’ve lived my whole life with a land mind. Thinking land thoughts. But I want to think sea thoughts. I want to have a sea mind.”
― Sea Wife
― Sea Wife
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