"Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book."

-- Ron Rash

#Moving Quotes #Book Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.”
“It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it,”
“Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.”

Source : "How Liberalism Destroyed the American Jew" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 10, 2013.
“Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.”

Source : "The Junius Pamphlet". 1915.
“There are not many places to go once you've killed someone like John Lennon.”
“Your desire to withdraw from everything when Allah has involved you in the world of means is a hidden appetite. Your desire for involvement with the world of means when Allah has withdrawn you from it is a fall from high aspiration.”
“Iâ€™m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is the way people look when they are lost in thought, when their face becomes angry or serious, when they bite their lip, the way they glance, the way they look down when they walk, when they are alone and smoking a cigarette, when they smirk, the way they half smile, the way they try and hold back tears, the way when their face says they want to say something but canâ€™t, the way they look at someone they want or loveâ€¦ I love the way people look when they do these things. Itâ€™sâ€¦ beautiful.”
“Ministry is just ZZ Top with technology.”

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