Genres : | Fiction , Literary Fiction , Adult |
Published By : | ReganBooks |
Published On : | May 01, 1999 |
ISBN : | 0060987561 (ISBN13: 9780060987565) |
Format : | Paperback |
Language : | English |
No. of pages : | 897 |
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“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.”
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“But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?”
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“With destruction comes renovation.”
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“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”
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“I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway. ”
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