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He kissed her hungrily, as if for nourishment. Later it would seem to him an act of cannibalism; the law he violated seemed nearly that ancient. But that night he was beyond reason, a man too long starved.

Faith Quotes

That the woman was beautiful and dear to him, that he’d told her things he’d never told a living soul: this would have been more than enough even without the dreamlike echo of another moment, equally potent. For it seemed to him, the whole day long, that both reels were rolling at once, his boyhood and manhood, the indelible past and achingly tangible present. The boy he’d been and the man he was;

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Abby was an excellent mother, by every measure better than Ma had been. She rationed the boys’ TV watching, doled out vitamins, kept track of their dental checkups, wrestled them into their baths. Yet Mike sometimes wondered: did Abby enjoy their children? Wasn’t there more to being a parent than simply doing everything right?

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What a relief, that laughter! What a blessed release.

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Often enough, one of us will make the other laugh so hard and long that asphyxiation seems a real danger. It’s a heady pleasure rare in adulthood, not unlike—I will say it—the shared breathlessness of rousingly successful coitus.

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The events of his childhood had never left him. Instead the memory had grown watery, indistinct, like something he’d dreamed. Abused, molested: these were not terms he used, even to himself.

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Watching, I dread my own womanhood, the day when I too will follow along carrying bags of groceries, my mission wherever I go to feed other people who take actual part in life while I am simply the catering staff.

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The human heart: its expansions and contractions, its electrics and hydraulics, the warm tides that move and fill it.

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It wasn’t her problem to solve; it was Kevin’s. Let God fix him. After repeating the words for months, she finally understood what they meant. Let go and let God.

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Kath woke the next morning in a state of dazed wonder. It is a sensation I have experienced myself, a frank amazement when my cynicism is confounded. When, defying all precedent, the thing I most desire actually appears.

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All these explanations, and more, had been offered to Arthur. He could choose from among them whichever he liked, like drawing a card from a deck.

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He spent two weeks in South Shore Hospital in a state of near oblivion; and when he woke, it was as though he’d taken a trip around the world and lost most of his luggage along the way. Heavy bags they were, packed with thirty years of indignities, rages, brawls and indiscretions.

Faith Quotes

What can a photograph mean? It seems to me, now, that it’s not so much the image itself as the fact that it was kept. In my own bedroom closet are three large boxes I labeled—late one night, in a dark mood—PLUTONIUM. They are filled with my own keepsakes and very heavy, decades of living distilled down to a few potent sentiments: tenderness, longing, regret.

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Driving east into the bright sun, he’d been dogged by a creeping sense of déjà vu, but it wasn’t until Kath called to Aidan—Help Father with the cooler!—that he recognized the scene from his own childhood. How strange, how disorienting, to find himself in the man’s seat, driving, when in his mind he was still the little boy.

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To Mike—to most people who have ever known her—Kath Conlon has disappeared completely. It is an addict’s trick, this vanishing act, this dizzying plunge through a dim portal into a dark and beguiling parallel world.

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It’s true more often than we realize: each new love is built from the wreckage of the loves that came before. In Kath, Mike saw Lisa; in Art’s eyes, she resembled our mother. I can’t look at Mike’s face without seeing Dad’s. Art, to Ma, was the living ghost of Harry Breen. We love those who fit the peculiar voids within us, our hollow wounds. We love to fill the spaces the old loves left behind.

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That night he’d glimpsed, however briefly, a sweetly exalted human happiness he’d only read about, Art who’d spent his whole life reading about apparitions. In those few moments he knew genuine tenderness, given and received. He experienced grace. If it sounds like heresy, I am far past caring: for my brother, making love to Kath was a reflection of divine love, a brief flash of God alive in the world.

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And yet there’s no denying that these events generated a tidal wave of confusion and shame, and neither party was much of a swimmer.

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My heart aches for her. I am, myself, no stranger to this waiting, the charged and terrible uncertainty that follows the surrender to passion—this dangling in limbo, waiting, waiting for a man to call.

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That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?

You knew about that?” Nearly thirty years later, the memory was still embarrassing. I worried what it said about me. At best it seemed to point to some intrinsic foolishness, a deep-seated eccentricity that lurked within me still.

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Her skin was as pale as milk. She must live on vanilla ice cream, Dinah thought; rounds of Camembert, crème anglaise.

Mrs. Kimble Quotes

It was the oldest friends who mattered most. With each passing year, Paulette realized this more deeply. She thought of her borther Roy, retired to Arizona, to golf with other men who were also - she loathed the expression - senior citizens. Roy had arrived in Phoenix with an entire life behind him, a career, a marriage; to his new friends he'd always be old.

The Condition Quotes

I have great respect for writers who are humble, whose language allows the reader to see the story but doesn't get in the way. Language is a window, and if the window is clean, you shouldn't be aware you're looking through glass.

Writing Quotes

But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head.

Faith Quotes Joy Quotes Song Quotes / Expression Quotes

More than anything in life, she wishes she'd let him. That she'd smiled for the camera. That she'd said yes. Life was gone before you knew it;how foolish she'd been to refuse any of it.

News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories Quotes

...that renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?

Faith Quotes

I open my heart to her and lay it on the table.

Faith Quotes / Family secrets Quotes Mothers and daughers Quotes Religion Quotes

His words stayed with her for years. Each night as she lay waiting for sleep, she tried to re-create the evening in her mind — the tone of his voice, his hand on her shoulder. Soon the memory was worn as an old photograph, the edges fuzzy from frequent handling; she worried that she’d gotten the words wrong, forgotten some nuance of his face or voice. Finally she wondered if she’d made the whole thing up.

Mrs. Kimble Quotes

The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.

Faith Quotes Inspirational Quotes / Thought provoking Quotes

When they touched it was like touching her own body. From childhood they had been the same height; their arms and legs and hands were still perfectly congruent. Only the centers of them were different, aching, fascinated, every part of them heated to the same temperature as the sun warmed pond.

Mrs. Kimble Quotes

Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what the universe didn’t wish to give.

Destiny Quotes Life lessons Quotes Mrs. Kimble Quotes

...sooner or later you have to decide what you believe." It was a thing I'd always known but until recently had forgotten: that faith is a decision. In its most basic form, it is a choice.

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I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

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The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

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It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.

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