"Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David."

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Kwame Dawes

#Stars Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.”
“Holly clambered after him, struggling up the human-size steps. "Wait! Just wait," she called, overtaking Artemis and looking him in the eye from one step up. "I know you, Artemis. You like to play your genius card close to your chest until the big reveal. And that's worked out for us so far. But this time you need to let me in. I can help. So, tell me the truth, do you have a plan?" Artemis met his friend's gaze and lied to her face. "No," he said. "No plan.”
“I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.”
“The devil is not fighting religion. HeÂ´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.”
“You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.”
“when the boogie man goes to sleep he checks his closet for me”
“Create something people want to share.”
“What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?”

Source : Cate Tiernan (2007). “Book of Shadows: Book One”, p.9, Penguin

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