"You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family."

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Source : Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.307, Random House

Anthony Marra

#Soul Quotes #Twists Quotes #Misery Quotes

“I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".”
“We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.”
“As long as we see church life as a meeting weâ€™ll miss its reality and its depth. If the truth were told, the Scriptures tell us very little about how the early church met. It tells us volumes about how they shared life together. They didnâ€™t see the church as a meeting or an institution, but as a family living under Father.”
“My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make your own mistakes. You're ready to do your own thing and just at that moment of being unbridled, if somebody's trying to manage you too tightly, it's going to be tough - particularly if that person's got the same last name.”

Source : Source: usatoday30.usatoday.com
“For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that was certain, but he also resented her. He loved her strength and practicality but resented her overbearing personality and tendency to do things on his behalf without consulting him first; loved that she tolerated his interest in all things exotic and erotic but hated her blinkered Catholicism. Charles Darwin had killed God but she and her family, like so many others, still clung to the delusion.”
“I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. Jamie, thought, was something different. His extreme gentleness was in no way tentative; rather it was a promise of power known and held in leash; a challenge and a provocation the more remarkable for its lack of demand. I am yours, it said. And if you will have me, then...”
“If people have the ability to see it, and you spend the money to put the wow factor into it, they will reward that entity or that team or that business, and they will then say they appreciate me, they appreciate what I'm about, and they will support it.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“Gratitude is a lifestyle. Â A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle.”

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