"Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer and reader, an invaluable exchange of human conditions."

-- Jonathan Evison

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“During Richard Nixonâ€™s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the Southâ€™s ability to defend itself. The result was a success - until Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time finish the job properly.”
“They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.”
“Nobodyâ€™s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. Itâ€™s just lifeâ€™s way of saying, â€˜Time to change course.â€™”
“I'm an Italian girl from the south who's very passionate.”
“My understanding of God is an experience. God is. That's all I know. In the Biblical tradition, it would be expressed as, "Be still and know that I am God." God is the "I am" energy. Something huge is at play here - cosmic creativity, consciousness, God, whatever you want to call it. I do believe that it's a guided ride. We're on a guided tour of the universe.”
“Return to me, for my heart wants you only. Hurry home, hurry home, won't you please hurry home to my heart.”
“Nothing is far from God.”
“Broke up created a crisis...in every circumstance because a family gets blown apart. We all know what that does to a child. We all know what that does to a woman's identity. But, at the same time, it caused me to start to reevaluate all those things weren't able to stay intact - all the people's attention, all the success, the financial security. It didn't have any value.”

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