"She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder."

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Source : "Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel". Book by Jeffery Deaver, 2009.

Jeffery Deaver

#Hands Quotes #Gestures Quotes #Saving Quotes

“I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.”
“But love, Iâ€™ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”
“Once you embrace that WHO you are defines you, you can conquer the world. What matters is what's in your heart, what your goals are and what kind of life you want to lead.”
“We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.”
“Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.”
“Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.”
“I started getting orders from some of the leading stores Fred Segal, Bergdorf Goodman. I realized then that my bags were being noticed by the fashion world.”
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Oâ€™er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. â€œGet me out!â€ I said, advising, â€œPluck me from this jail of text- or I swear Iâ€™ll wring your neck!”

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