But God in his infinite wisdome had apparently thought it was an entertaining idea for us to always be wanting to get up in one another.
But by fusing the best of both sides, a kind of intertwining consciousness arises—grandmother and granddaughter wisdom emerging from shared hope, relieved of emotions tainted by control and guilt and...
V has finally learned that sitting calm within herself and waiting is often the best choice. And even when it's not, those around you become uncomfortable because they think you are wise.
He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something...
They did what they did, and moved forward despite whatever trail of ashes they left behind.
I do know that however hard you try, you can’t see the inside tangle of somebody else’s love—or whatever uglier word applies—not deep enough to make sense of it.
I don't even know whether past feelings and memories deserve any respect at all. Maybe they're no more important than a pinch of pain from an injury decades old. Feelings and memories rise and pass ev...
And all the ministers of the various types of local Baptists had declined to participate in retribution for Monroe’s failure to believe in a God with severe limitations on His patience and mercy.
You’ll find that as you grow old, you stop bothering to hide the self you’ve been all along.
There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.
In the end, he said he judged the Bible to be a sound book. Nevertheless, he wondered why the white people were not better than they are, having had it for so long. He promised that just as soon as wh...
Inhuman, V says. But that's an easy word. We've been doing that sort of thing to each other all through history, back past the Pyramids. Humans are inhuman, whether it's by direct action or by accepta...
Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.
It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God’s personal attributes.
It was simple, and not one she’d ever found the strength to follow. The idea was, the you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are. And also maybe something about...
I’ve had relatives so crooked they nearly went to prison, but if you have money you never actually go. They make you think it for a while, and that’s your punishment.
They did not talk much while they ate, other than for Ada to say that the Georgia boy did not seem like much of a one as far as men went. Ruby said she found him not particularly worse than the genera...
Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
Monroe had in fact preached that God was not at all such a one as ourselves, not one to be temperamentally inclined to tread ragefully upon us until our blood flew up and stained all His white raiment...
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