"the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words evoke pictures and something altogether new is created, something different from the limits of my own skills and imagination. Something that is a marriage between your heart, mind, and body - and mine."

-- Rebecca Wells

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“Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?”
“Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.10
“Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of a god or what he stands for us real in our thoughts and deeds, then he is not real or true.”
“I'm trying as hard as I can, and sometimes things don't go your way, and that's the way things go.”
“The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.”
“For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.”

Source : "The Shipping News". Book by Annie Proulx, 1993.
“Well you learn from making mistakes. It's that simple.”
“There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.”

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