"No one can say Christianity has failed. It has never been tried."

-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

#Christianity Quotes

“Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed away in 2003. I became very guilty and began to spend a lot of time with older people. I listened carefully to their stories.”
“If a woman is bed-heady and it doesn't look put on, it's pretty sexy. But when a woman is wearing a really smart dress with great heels and her hair is pulled back, that's terribly sexy too - like an Audrey Hepburn kind of thing.”
“You sweetâ€¦beautifulâ€¦lunatic,â€ he heard himself mutter.”
“We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.”

Source : Sarah McCoy (2012). “The Baker's Daughter: A Novel”, p.53, Broadway Books
“Women have always been the strong ones of the world.”
“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
“pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near (...) the beginning”
“And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)”

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